TurboJet has announced that it will increase the number of daily sailings from 1 May, with a maximum of 66 daily trips to and from Hong Kong and Macau. It will also add special sailings on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, which will increase the service frequency to every 15 minutes on weekends at Macau Outer Harbour Ferry Terminal and Taipa Terminal.
TurboJET’s Director of Macau Services Division, Alfred Ng, said in an interview with IAG last month that sailings would be increased by May and would reach about 60 sailings per day between Hong Kong and Macau.
“By that time, TurboJET will be able to operate a service to Hong Kong every 15 minutes from the Macau Outer Harbour Ferry Terminal and Taipa Ferry Terminal,” said Ng, who has now fulfilled that promise.
He also pointed out that the capacity of Hong Kong’s Sheung Wan and Macau Outer Harbour Ferry Terminal has already been restored to half of pre-COVID levels and the capacity of all shipping between Hong Kong and Macau to 40%.
Monday 1 May represents the start of Golden Week with Macau’s concessionaires and tourism operators expecting strong visitation and hotel occupancy rates of around 90%. The MGTO said earlier this week it expects daily visitor arrivals to reach 70,000.
According to information from Ctrip and quoted by Macao Daily, the number of air tickets booked from mainland China to Macau between 29 April and 5 May has increased by 622% year-on-year, with the top five source cities being Shanghai, Beijing, Wuxi, Nanjing and Hangzhou.
