Aviação civil: fim da concessão exclusiva

 ag25 A new bus service between Zhuhai’s airport and Hong Kong began trial operations on Thursday, mainland Chinese media have reported. The service aims to transport travellers between Zhuhai’s Jinwan airport, the Hong Kong International Airport, as well as the city centre of the special administrative region. There will be 14 round trips each day across four routes, with the trip to the two airports taking about 1.5 hours. The journey to or from Hong Kong’s city centre is about two hours long. During the initial trial period, business-seat tickets cost RMB260 (MOP291.27/US$36.34) each. Ticket purchase is available at the counter for cross-border rides on the first floor of Zhuhai’s airport. https://www.macaubusiness.com/zhuhai-airport-unveils-direct-coach-link-to-hong-kong/

 ag25 Macau has already signed service agreements with 50 countries, including the United Arab Emirates, Oman, Israel, Turkey and Qatar, laying the legal groundwork for future aviation links with these five Middle Eastern nations. The latest update comes from the Civil Aviation Authority, in a recent written reply to lawmaker Lam Lon Wai. The authority told the legislator that there had been talks with their counterpart in Saudi Arabia to set up a bilateral pact over regular passenger flights between the two regions – within the year. For now, Macau primarily serves as a transit hub of cargo services for Turkish Airlines and Qatar Airways. The authority also revealed that the city’s airport operator was carrying out ‘incentive programmes’ to woo foreign carriers to expand the city’s route network. Under an express service in Macau that is tailored to flights bound for Southeast and Northeast Asia, air passengers are allowed to transit via other major hubs such as Beijing, Kuala Lum...

 ag25 O Governo vai cobrar um milhão de patacas de taxa para a futura atribuição e renovação de licenças para companhias aéreas locais. Além disso, as operadoras de transporte aéreo de passageiros devem ainda pagar, anualmente, uma taxa de actividade correspondente a 2% dos lucros líquidos do ano anterior. As companhias estarão também sujeitas a uma caução de 15 milhões de patacas. As futuras companhias aéreas sediadas em Macau terão de pagar um milhão de patacas ao Governo no âmbito da atribuição da licença de actividade de transporte aéreo comercial de passageiros. A renovação de licença vai custar o mesmo montante. A informação consta de um despacho publicado ontem em Boletim Oficial, assinado pelo Chefe do Executivo, Sam Hou Fai, que manda fixar as referidas taxas nos termos da nova lei da actividade de aviação civil. As taxas de atribuição e renovação da licença são pagas à Direcção dos Serviços de Finanças (DSF), segundo estipulou, no prazo de 30 dias após a recepção da notif...