Airlines from Indonesia, India and South Korea reduced the number of routes to Hong Kong in the coming weeks due to the reduction in passengers.

Data from the Routes Online flight tracking page today shows that many Asian airlines such as PT Garuda Indonesia, SpiceJet India, Malaysia's Air Asia, Jeju Air and Jin Air Korea, PAL and Cebu Air of the Philippines have canceled many flights to Hong Kong in the context of protests in this special zone has no end signs.

Garuda reduces the number of flights to Hong Kong every week from 21 to 4, while SpiceJet will cancel the Mumbai - Hong Kong route until January 15, 2020. Air Asia is also cutting back flights from Kuala Lumpur and Kota Kinabalu to Hong Kong Special Zone in the next two months.

"This change is to meet market requirements," said Ikhsan Rosan, a spokesman for Garuda Indonesia. Air Asia confirmed that the number of passengers to and from Hong Kong has decreased over the past several months, forcing the airline to adjust operations.

PAL Holdings, the owner of Philippines Airlines, announced that it was using smaller sized aircraft than normal, as well as cutting flights between Manila and Hong Kong because many passengers canceled flights.

Jeju Air decided to halve the number of daily flights to Hong Kong, while rival Jin Air confirmed it would completely stop the Seoul - Hong Kong route until December 24.

Hong Kong protests erupted in early June to protest the extradition bill that allows criminals to be brought into jurisdictions where the Special Zone has not signed an extradition treaty, including mainland China. Although the special zone government withdrew the bill, protesters still took to the streets to issue other claims such as investigating the use of force by police and demanding resignation of Hong Kong Special Chief Officer Carrie Lam.

More than 5,000 protesters swept into Hong Kong International Airport in August, causing hundreds of flights to be canceled and dozens of aircraft to be diverted.

Demonstrations increased when Hong Kong planned to hold a local election on November 24 to select 400 members for 18 county councils. This is considered an "thermometer" important to the public opinion before the current protests. Council members do not have much power under the current system of Hong Kong, but can greatly influence the way Legislative Council and the Chief of the District are chosen in the future.