Domestic passenger traffic increased 1.2 per cent year-on-year with 1,963,000 travellers passing through the terminals in April. This represents an 85.9 per cent recovery rate compared to April 2019.
A total of 1,127,000 passengers passed through the T1 International terminal in April, which is more than double the number seen in April 2022 and 80.6 per cent recovered on pre-pandemic April 2019 passenger traffic.
Chinese passport holders ranked third in the list of top 10 nationalities to fly through Sydney in April, moving up from fifth place in March 2023. This represents a 53.8 per cent recovery on pre-pandemic April 2019 and was a significant jump up from the 39.6 per cent recovery rate in March, highlighting the ongoing revival of the China market.
Sydney Airport CEO Geoff Culbert said: “At the end of this month Sydney Airport will have seven mainland Chinese passenger carriers offering 30 return services per week, with even more flights to be added soon. That’s remarkable considering we started the year with just three airlines flying four return services to mainland China a week."
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China will return to the number one spot as Australia's largest inbound market by 2025 according to Tourism Australia.
Managing Director Philippa Harrison said: "We are anticipating that [airline capacity] is going to jump to 50 per cent in the next couple of months. We think that in 2024 [the Chinese market] will normalise and by late 2025 it will be booming and return as the largest inbound market, followed by New Zealand and then US and UK markets. The US market is also growing quite fast."
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