December 29 2024: 38 arrivals. Yes, it feels like a ghost town. It's a Chinese project borne in the years when Chinese charter flights were on the rise and seemed to grow and grow with the growing Chinese middle class until covid-19 hit, followed by the shutdown of numerous big foreign industrial companies, that has left thousands of Chinese workers jobless. A recession that seems to hit very hard and with no end in sight leaves SAI as an airport that will never reach its full capacity.