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Staff shortages dent Hong Kong air hub hopes

Airlines struggling to add flights as demand picks up amid China reopening

A severe shortage of ground handling staff and other personnel is causing headaches for airlines serving Hong Kong. (Photo: AFP)

HONG KONG: Regional airlines are struggling to ramp up flights to Hong Kong because of staff shortages at the airport, slowing the city’s plan to recapture its travel hub status, industry insiders have told AFP.

Hong Kong, which calls itself Asia’s World City, once had one of the globe’s busiest — and best-connected — airports.

That evaporated during the coronavirus pandemic as authorities imposed more than two years of travel curbs and quarantine rules.

The business hub has begun reopening with…

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