Taoyuan airport also exceeded Tokyo and Hong Kong in the number of transit passengers to San Francisco, with about 760,000 headed to the northern California city in 2024. People line up at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport in an undated photograph. Photo courtesy of Taoyuan International Airport CorpThe institute has yet to release data for last year. The study also found that 74.7 percent of passengers on Taoyuan-San Francisco flights were transit passengers. “However, Taoyuan still lagged behind other competitors in terms of transit passengers to New York,” Yeh said, adding that Taiwan has room to improve in terms of transit passengers to the US east coast.

Source: Taipei Times March 24, 2026 17:14 UTC