Pune: The number of passengers flying in and out of the city's Lohegaon airport rose by 24.64% in the last year. The airport handled 28.14 lakh passengers during 2010-11 ( financial year) as against 22.57 lakh in 2009-10.
Officials at the Airports Authority of India (AAI), Pune, say a stable growth pattern has set in over the last couple of years after the debilitating effects of the global economic slowdown on the airline industry in 2008-09. In 2009-10, passenger traffic grew by a healthy 26.03% over the 17.91 lakh passengers handled by the airport in 2008-09.
Significantly, a measly ating from Pune, connecting 11 destinations on the domestic circuit and another two on the international circuit ( Dubai and Frankfurt). 3.73% growth was recorded in 2008-09.
The airport is well on course to cross the 3 million mark for annual passenger traffic by March 2012. As of now, eight airlines are operating from Pune, connecting 11 destinations on the domestic circuit and another two on the international circuit (Dubai and Frankfurt).
There hasn't been any addition of flights connecting Pune with new destinations but the number of flights on some of the existing routes, like Bangalore, have gone up," Pune airport director P S R K Sudhakar told TOI on Friday. "Our focus now is on making optimum use of the passenger handling capacity of our terminal buildings by segregating the number of flights that get bunched during the peak hours."
30/04/11 Vishwas Kothari/Times of India
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