HONG Kong International Airport will implement the controversial airport construction fee from August 1 despite earlier objection from the trade. Airlines will tax departing passengers, including origin-destination and transit passengers, when air tickets are issued. The fee is being collected to fund the expansion of the airport, which includes a third runway.<\/p>\n
Agents interviewed do not welcome the decision, although they predict the fee is unlikely to deter travel to and from Hong Kong.<\/p>\n
Eastrip Travel general manager Jacky Chan said: \u201cIt\u2019s not a good move but I think Hongkongers will get used to it eventually. We have no say anyway as it\u2019s government policy. I also have reservations on whether we really need a third runway.\u201d<\/p>\n
Wing Wong, managing director of W Travel thinks it\u2019s unfair for departing passengers to be taxed. \u201cI think our government should bear part of the construction cost. It\u2019s not fair for end-users to foot the bill,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Paul Leung, managing director of Holiday World Tours, is worried the fee will dent the city\u2019s reputation as a destination. He said: \u201cThe airport is perceived as an infrastructure funded and built by the government. Visitors may psychologically not feel good for paying for airport upgrades they can\u2019t use now.\u201cStill, I personally support the idea of a third runway because of passenger saturation. Planes also have to queue longer before taking off and we need the infrastructure to fuel future growth.\u201d<\/p>\n
SOURCE from \u00a0: Prudence Lui, Hong Kong\u00a0@\u00a0<\/em>TTG Asia\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" HONG Kong International Airport will implement the controversial airport construction fee from August 1 despite earlier objection from the trade. Airlines will tax departing passengers, including origin-destination and transit passengers, when air tickets are issued. The fee is being collected to fund the expansion of the airport, which includes a third runway. Agents interviewed do […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2243,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,3,4],"tags":[95,94],"class_list":["post-2242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-china","category-news","category-promotions","tag-chek-lap-kok-airport","tag-hongkong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanyangtravel.com.my\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanyangtravel.com.my\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanyangtravel.com.my\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanyangtravel.com.my\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanyangtravel.com.my\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nanyangtravel.com.my\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanyangtravel.com.my\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nanyangtravel.com.my\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanyangtravel.com.my\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nanyangtravel.com.my\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}