Air Macau airline managed to reduce its loss by 14.2% in the first half of the year, to 331 million yuan (42.4 million euros), compared to the same period in 2025. According to Air China's financial report, the parent company of the carrier, operating revenues rose 16% year-on-year, reaching 1.74 billion yuan. The number of passengers grew by 7.9%, to 1.69 million, and the average flight occupancy rate increased by 2.6 percentage points, reaching 78.34%.
Air China attributes the increase in group losses, which totaled 2.29 billion yuan, 26.6% more than in the first half of 2025, to the rise in fuel prices. Air Macau has not recorded profits since 2020, when the covid-19 pandemic began, which caused restrictions on the entry of tourists from mainland China, the main market for the region. Over the past six years, the company accumulated losses of 3.89 billion yuan, including 655 million yuan in 2025 alone.
At the end of 2024, shareholders injected 1.6 billion patacas into Air Macau, of which 344.1 million patacas in public funds, which was the fourth capital injection into the company since 2009. In February of last year, Macau implemented a new civil aviation legal framework, which liberalizes the market and puts an end to Air Macau's monopoly, in effect since 1995. So far, the Government has not issued concessions to any other airline.
Macau International Airport, inaugurated in 1995, currently operates regular passenger flights to 47 destinations in China, Taiwan, Southeast Asia, Japan, and South Korea, through 29 airlines. In April 2025, the first long-haul cargo route between Macau and Madrid began operations, operated by Ethiopian Airlines, and in June of the following year, an agreement was signed for the opening of a direct air cargo route to Latin America.
