The combined allowed capacity of these two terminals is 34 million passengers a year, but 44 million passengers passed through the airport last year, according to the CAA
Taiwan News
Date: 2018/01/14
By: George Liao,Taiwan News, Staff Writer
TAIPEI (Taiwan News)–Taoyuan International Airport served 45 million passengers in
Overcrowded Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport (By Central News Agency)
2017, 10 million more passengers than the allowed capacity, according to the latest statistics of Taiwan’s Civil Aeronautics Administration (CAA).
Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport Co. has been facing more pressure from increasing numbers of passengers passing through the airport. The coming Chinese New Year holiday season is likely to pose a great challenge to the airport as the number of passengers will surge during this period of time.
Taoyuan Airport spokesman Lee Chien-kuo (李建國) said numbers of passengers passing through the airport have increased too rapidly. Even though numbers of Chinese visitors to Taiwan have fallen, the decrease was more than compensated by the increase of both visitors from countries other than China and Taiwanese making tourist visits overseas, he said. [FULL STORY]
