Passenger growth has BIA smiling

Bangalore: With the sluggish air traffic growth showing signs of improvement globally, Bengaluru International Airport (BIA) has recorded a positive upward trend in passenger trafficsince July this year.
The airport has reported passenger traffic figures of 2.45 million, the highest ever at the airport, since its opening in May 2008.
Releasing the latest air passenger traffic statistics, on Monday, in a review of traffic figures, BIAL said this trend provides an insight into the winter season and summer 2010 season forecast and points out to the civil aviation industry showing signs of a much awaited revival.
“In the last quarter, the Airport Service Quality (ASQ) which is a world graph of airport performance standards, the BIAL has been rated as high as 4.17 on a scale of 1 – 5, among the best airports in the world. More importantly, the online as well as physical feedback received from passengers has been positive as well as encouraging,” said Marcel Hungerbuehler, Chief Executive Officer, BIAL.
According to the airport authorities, the latter half of this year (2009) has resulted in domestic carriers stabilising with higher traffic numbers which they did not achieve earlier.
15/12/09 Deccan Herald

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Categories: Airports Dec 2009