Bangalore: Bangalore International Airport Limited (BIAL), among India’s five privately owned airports, has said it is now the country’s third busiest in terms of domestic traffic. Chennai’s state-owned airport held that position earlier.
International airports at Mumbai and Delhi, both privately-owned, are the busiest ones.
Bangalore has the third highest domestic traffic in the country after Mumbai and Delhi, making it the busiest in south India,” said Sanjay Reddy, MD of BIAL, in a statement. BIAL said its domestic traffic was 10.24 million in 2011 (with the December figure forecasted). There was no separate confirmation from Chennai airport on this data. Its latest available total passenger traffic data, in 2010-11 was 12 million, of which 80 per cent is estimated to be domestic traffic.
24/12/11 Business Standard
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