Airports Council International Asia-Pacific & Middle East (ACI APAC & MID) today announced its highly anticipated Air Connectivity Ranking 2024, revealing a remarkable 14% year-on-year increase in both Asia-Pacific and Middle East regions, driven by strong international demand, robust network recovery, and the return of major travel corridors.
Aviation sector in India is on a robust rebound – passenger and air traffic movement wise. Playing its part in this economically upbeat scenario for the Indian aviation sector is Mangaluru International Airport (MIA), which has chalked steady upward trend on these critical parameters at the state’s second busiest airport – both for their domestic and international travel needs. Mangaluru International Airport in handling 17,94,054 passengers during FY 2022-23 has registered a 76% growth over the previous fiscal. The airport had handled 10,16,559 passengers during 2021-22. Out of the 17.94-lakh passengers handled, 12.08 lakh passengers were domestic, and the remaining 5.86-lakh passengers were overseas travelers, primarily to the various middle East destinations.
Brisbane Airport is experiencing its busiest 7-day post-pandemic period with people taking advantage of the school holidays and Easter to getaway, in a boost for Queensland’s visitor economy.
Today's passenger forecast for Brisbane Airport is just in: 69,000 people are forecast to travel through the domestic and international terminal today, in the busiest BNE day since Queensland was plunged into lockdown.
Macau International Airport (MIA) recorded more than 750,000 passengers traffic in the first quarter of 2023, representing year-on-year growth of 1.7 times. The flight movements recorded year-on-year increase of 57% with over 6,900 movements in the first quarter of 2023.
Three public holidays overlapping with both the New Zealand and Australian end of term break will see a busy few weeks at Auckland Airport. Bookended by Easter and Anzac Day, many families are jetting away before the cooler weather sets in with more than 800,000 people travelling across the school holidays. Auckland Airport Chief Customer Officer, Scott Tasker, said the opportunity to extend the school holidays with Good Friday and Anzac Day means passenger numbers are predicted to be just over 80% of 2019 levels across both the international and domestic terminals.
Brisbane Airport is predicting up to 15,000 passengers to pass through its International Terminal tomorrow (Sunday), representing a new post-COVID record, with international services boosted by 77% compared to this time last year.
International operations resumed at Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport on March 26, the first day on which 2023 summer flight schedule came into effective. In the morning, a ceremony was held at SHA to celebrate that international flights as well as flights to Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan were restarted. MU721, departed at 0822AM from Hongqiao International Airport for Hong Kong, was the first one witnessing the international operations recommenced.
Gold Coast Airport has recorded its busiest February since pre-covid with more than 429,000 passengers travelling through the terminal last month.
The total passenger traffic for the 3 airports reached 70% recovery from February 2019. The international passenger traffic is making further recovery, similarly to last month, especially with foreign passengers (53% from February 2019), and its recovery rate reached 46% from February 2019.
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