Mumbai airport records 20 mn passengers in 11 months

Mumbai: In the past 11 months, Mumbai airport, the busiest in India, handled over 20 million passengers, registering a 21.28% growth in passenger traffic as compared to the previous year. In the year 2005-06, the figure was 17.6 million passengers.
Mumbai airport surpassed the 20-million mark in passenger traffic for the period April 2006-February 2007, with a total of 13.56 million domestic air passengers and 6.73 million international passengers.
About 1.8 lakh landings and take-offs were handled by the airport during this period.
While February recorded a passenger traffic of 1.91 million and 16,581 air traffic movements, in January the passenger traffic was 2.15 million, with the traffic being 2.14 million in December last year.
According to sources, during 2005-06, about 45,996 international flights were handled by the Mumbai airport. Compared to the year before that, it was an increase of 4377 flights, even as eight airlines launched new operations into the city.
17/03/07 Times of India

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Categories: Airports Mar 2007