Shuttle services connecting Macau and Hong Kong’s airport through the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge (HZMB) will resume next week, with three shifts per day tentatively scheduled.
Following the lifting of Covid-related restrictions, demand for shuttle bus services from local residents has been rising increasingly while flights are gradually returning to the Hong Kong International Airport, Hong Kong Airport Transportation Service (Macau) Co. was quoted by Chinese language newspaper Macau Daily as explaining.
Three shifts a day will be brought back starting next week, with the buses mainly running at around midday, according to the company, adding that they will consider increasing the frequency of the shuttles on a gradual basis should the business prove to be in high demand.
Due to the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, the shuttle bus services between the Macau port of HZMB and the airport in the neighbouring city, which came into operation on 16 December 2019, have been suspended for nearly three years since 23 March, 2020.
One-way ticket were originally priced at MOP185 for adults, and MOP120 for children who are 3 years of age and senior citizens.
Over the past three years, ‘the Golden bus’ – another sort of shuttle bus – was the only link between the two SARs at a time when ferry services were also suspended.
After authorities removed pre-departure testing requirements for arrivals from Hong Kong, Taiwan and mainland China, sea connections between Macau and Hong Kong resumed from 8 January.