The Central Epidemic Command Center’s lifting of the dine-in restriction at restaurants for outbound travelers at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport would only slightly help them recover their business, as the number of passengers accessing the airport is expected to plummet to fewer than 1 million this year, Taoyuan International Airport Corp senior vice president Hong Yu-fen (洪玉芬) said yesterday.
That would be the worst year since the airport opened in 1979, when it was accessed by 4.04 million, Hong said.
A total of 609,572 travelers accessed the airport from January to August — 266,897 inbound travelers and 342,675 outbound travelers, she said.
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