Traffic, flyers' flow grow at Patna airport

Patna: City's Jayaprakash Narayan International Airport ranked second in the country, after the Amritsar airport, in terms of percentage growth in flow of domestic passengers and aircraft movement during April-December 2009.
These figures are based on the traffic statistics of the Airports Authority of India (AAI) as reported in its in-house periodical, `Traffic Reporter'. It has compiled figures of the country's 46 major airports.
The growth in terms of passengers' flow at the Patna airport was 52.6%, second only to the Amritsar airport which registered a growth of 64.6% during April-December 2009. The Rajkot airport with a 51.3% growth of domestic passengers, stood third under this category.
Big airports like Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata and Bangalore recorded a modest growth under this head compared to the smaller centres.
As for the domestic aircraft movement, the Patna airport witnessed a 31.7% growth which was next to the growth of 49.4% recorded by the Amritsar airport. Rajkot again stood third under this category with a growth rate of 31.3%.
01/07/10 Sanjeev Kumar Verma/Times of India

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Categories: Airports Jul 2010