Lucknow takes 3rd slot in int’l air traffic growth

Lucknow: Call it new-found affluence or just plain coincidence, but people in Lucknow are flying high these days. With a 58.3% increase in the number of international air passengers for the April-December period last year vis-a-vis 2008, Lucknow airport stands third among 26 airports after Srinagar and Trichy in international air traffic growth.
In case of domestic air passengers, the percentage increase is 38.3% compared with 2008, with Lucknow placed at the sixth position among 46 airports in the country. Amritsar with 64.6% (1.55 lakh) air passengers between April and December 2009, compared to 94,405 during the same period in 2008 tops the chart. Patna ranks second with 52.6% (3.96 lakh) in 2009 as against 2.59 lakh air travellers in 2008 passenger growth. Rajkot with 51.3% passenger growth (1.38 lakh) in 2009 and 91,742 lakh in 2008 ranks third. Dibrugarh is fourth with 46.3% (1.3 lakh) in 2009 as against 9 lakh in 2008 and Udaipur is fifth with 41% (2.5 lakh) in 2009 as against 1.74 lakh in 2008.
According to the latest issue (December 2009) of Traffic Reporter an internal magazine of the Airports Authority of India, Lucknow pips metros like Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai and Kolkata in terms of percentage growth in both international as well as domestic passenger traffic. It is, however, a different story that Mumbai has logged the maximum number of international passengers at 6.1 million.
16/07/10 Deepa Jainani/Financial Express

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

Categories: Airports Jul 2010