Prognosis
Hong Kong’s Outbound Flights Slow to a Trickle as Covid Isolation Deepens
- Air departure options are narrowest in two decades, data show
- Growing ranks are trying to leave the city as it battles Covid
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Options to get out of Hong Kong by air are the most limited in at least two decades, just as the number of residents wanting to flee the city of 7.4 million surges.
Before the pandemic, a passenger plane would leave Hong Kong every three minutes, on average, making it almost as busy as New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport. These days, a whole hour could pass without a single departure, according to the latest data.