Airports handle more passengers in H1 than last year but same as 2007-08

New Delhi: The 46 operational airports in the country handled 4.2 crore domestic passengers during April-September 2009-10, which is about the same as the numbers handled in 2007.
This is in sharp contrast to the situation in 2008 when the number of domestic passengers handled by the airports touched 3.94 crore, registering a decline of 6.7 per cent over the previous year.
The latest data collated by the Airports Authority of India (AAI) show that only nine domestic airports including Chennai, Nagpur, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Tirupati and Vadodara handled lesser number of domestic passengers during April-September 2009-10 compared with the same period in the previous year.
There was a marginal decline in Chennai with the airport handling 3.19 million domestic passengers during April-September this year compared with 3.24 million previously.
On the other hand, Hyderabad witnessed a decline of 8.1 per cent handling 2.29 million domestic passengers compared with 2.49 million handled during April-September 2008-09.
29/11/09 Ashwini Phadnis/Business Line

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Categories: Airports Nov 2009, Indian Aviation- In General Nov 2009