Background

Staff shortages and fee hikes dent Hong Kong's plan to reboot air hub status Regional airlines are struggling to ramp up flights to Hong Kong because of staff shortages at the airport, slowing the city's plan to recapture its travel hub status, industry insiders have told AFP. Hong Kong, which calls itself Asia's World City, once had one of the globe's busiest and best-connected airports. That evaporated during the coronavirus pandemic as authorities imposed more than two years of travel curbs and quarantine rules. The business hub has begun reopening with leader John Lee proclaiming in November that "Hong Kong is back". But around 20 regional Asian airlines have been unable to restart or increase services to the city despite months of negotiations with ground handling services, five airline executives told AFP, asking not to be named. The executives complained that ground handling companies were upping fees by 30 to 100 percent and prioritising parent companies or mostly Chinese airlines that they have close, or direct, business ties to. Some warned it was becoming difficult to convince their headquarters to keep a presence in Hong Kong.

Questions

1. Determine the challenge and constraints of the development of Hong Kong International Airport(HKIA) after COVID 19 era.

2. Collect relevant data from various sources to support Q1 answer. For example, AAHK, Hong Kong Government, Airlines operators. etc.

3. Assess the potential impacts of HKIA development.

Maintain as an international hub

Providing safe and effective air travel

Operating costs

4. Identify and evaluate major barriers limiting growth of HKIA

5. Draw conclusions and propose suggestions for overcome this challenge.(Such as policy, technology, development plan of HKIA)