PHOTO: Chiang Mai International airport recently - mychiangmaitravel.com
The numbers at Chiang Mai’s international airport will fall 40% to 3.5 million in the first six months of this year if the outbreak of Covid-19 coronavirusdrags on until the middle of the year.
Chiang Mai airport deputy director Thananrat Prasertsri said late last week that flights to the airport during the period January 1 to February 25 dropped 24% year on year, and passenger numbers fell 40% year on year to 22,000 daily.
This as the airport is expanding service areas to improve its capacity.
PHOTO: Chiang Mai airport deputy director Thananrat Prasertsri – File photo
In the last two years, the airport has catered to 11 million passengers, despite being built for to serve a maximum of 8 million per year.
