India, China help push up passenger numbers at Changi airport

Singapore: Helped by increasing traffic from India and China, Singapore's Changi Airport handled 25 million passengers in the first half of this year, up 11.6 per cent compared to the first six months last year.
With links to 25 Chinese cities and 11 destinations in India, Changi Airport has become the most connected point from Southeast Asia to these two emerging economies, said the Changi Airport Group.
The six month passenger traffic between Singapore and China and India grew more than 20 per cent and more than 15 per cent, respectively, compared with the same period in 2011. it said. Reflecting Changi's increasing connectivity to China and India, traffic to the two countries grew strongest among markets with at least a million passengers, it said.
23/07/12 PTI/Economic Times

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Categories: airports Jul 2012, Foreign Jul 2012