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Pacific Rim Travel Down

SARS Keeps 'Em On The Ground

The number of travellers flying to SARS-infected countries has plunged by more than half, according to Asian tourism officials.

About 65 per cent fewer people are going to Hong Kong, Vietnam, Singapore and China.

Taiwan
  • 15 percent drop in the total number of inbound and outbound flights.
  • More flights to Japan and Europe, which are relatively free of the killer disease.
  • Travel agents put the rise at 30 per cent.
Hong Kong
  • Flight cancellations hit a peak on Thursday, the day after the World Health Organisation (WHO) advised against travel to Hongkong and Guangdong.
  • 98 flights were stopped on Thursday, about 21 per cent of the day's scheduled flights, according to the airport authority. Friday, 90 flights were cancelled.
  • With fallout from the Iraq war as well, the authority expects the number of flights this month to shrink by 14 per cent.
  • On average, about 580 flights land daily in Hongkong. The chairman of the travel agents' association, Michael Woo, estimated that the number of tourists will halve in the next two weeks. Last year, Hongkong received an average of a million tourists every month.
Thailand
  • AT least 20 flights were cut this week, with more expected.
  • Thai Airways said bookings into Thailand since March 1 have fallen 10 per cent.
  • Tourists arrivals fell 5 per cent last month and are expected to drop further this month.
  • Some European airlines said that there was a 25 per cent drop in the number of passengers.

Malaysia
  • Will suspend two of its daily flights to Singapore between Monday and May 28, and dropped one of its daily flights to Hongkong from Friday until April 30.
  • Daily traffic through Kuala Lumpur International Airport has fallen at least 3 per cent since the outbreak of the disease.
  • All passengers now entering from SARS-affected areas such as China, Hongkong, Taiwan, Singapore, Canada and Vietnam must declare their health status, and flights from these places will land in a specially designated area.

Indonesia
  • Flights from SARS-infected countries are flying in daily half-empty.
  • Normally, at least 900 passengers from Singapore, Hongkong, China and Vietnam would arrive in Jakarta daily, and another 1,000 would fly into Bali, said Garuda chief Indra Setiawan.
FMI: www.airportease.com/Airports-asia/ASIAN-Countries.htm

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