Indian passenger traffic through Abu Dhabi airport grows

Dubai: India and the Philippines were significant contributors to Abu Dhabi International Airport's 22.9 per cent year-on-year growth in passenger traffic in the month of August.
The Abu Dhabi Airports Company (ADAC) announced that a total of 869,868 passengers used the airport during August this year, compared to 707,671 last year, with the year-to-date figures crossing 5.9 mn - up 34.3 per cent against last year's 4.4 mn over the same period.
The number of passengers travelling from or to India passing through the airport jumped by 31.3 per cent during the period while Filipino passenger traffic grew 74.1 per cent.
India's national carrier Air India, budget carrier Air India Express and leading private airline Jet Airways fly to the Abu Dhabi International Airport, which is also the hub of the United Arab Emirates' (UAE) Etihad Airways.
Of the 1.5 mn expatriate Indians in the UAE, around 300,000 are in the emirate of Abu Dhabi. Among the major destinations in India flights from Abu Dhabi connect to are Delhi, Mumbai, Calicut, Kochi, Thiruvananthapuram and Mangalore.
The number of passengers to and from other Gulf States also rose particularly strongly, with Bahrain traffic up 44.4 per cent, Oman up 33.1 per cent, Qatar up 35.2 per cent and Saudi Arabia - the largest Gulf market for the airport - up 18.3 per cent.
Passenger traffic from Britain grew by 30.5 percent. The airport's top five destinations during the month were Doha, London, Cairo, Bahrain and Bangkok.
24/09/08 IANS/Economic Times

To Read the News in full at Source, Click the Headline

Categories: Airports Sep 2008, Foreign Sep 2008