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are
also
home
to
three airlines:
the largest
largest of which,
It has also
Cathay Pacific Airways, now has a fleet of over 50 aircraft serving 41 destinations in 26 countries. emerged as the third most profitable airline in the world.
3.
After four decades of aviation links, the number of Australian residents who visited Hong Kong by air in the first six months of 1993 stood at 123,000 while 66,990 Hong Kong residents went to Australia during the same period. This represents a growth of respectively 4.1% and 16.7% over the same period in 1992.
4.
Civil
aviation
and bilateral
trade
go
hand-in-hand.
Air services between Hong Kong and Australia
enhance
bilateral trade,
open up
new
opportunities and
cement economic, social and cultural bonds.
5.
Like Sydney and Melbourne,
and Melbourne, Hong Kong is
an
aviation centre of world standing. To prepare for the challenges ahead, we have set ourselves two major tasks :
one of them is the construction of a
at
new international
which will
be capable of
airport Chek Lap Kok round-the-clock operations and will have an ultimate design capacity of over 80 million passengers and up to 9 million
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