Visakhapatnam: December 2012 turned out to be an important milestone for the Visakhapatnam Airport as the number of air travellers using this facility crossed the one lakh mark - an all-time high in a single month, ever since it was inaugurated about four years ago.
The number of air travelers, both domestic and international, stood at 1,01,216 in December. The spurt in number of air travellers in the last month of 2012 took the total number of passengers to 7.6 lakh. According to Visakhapatnam Airport director K Srinivasa Rao, the peak seasons are May and December. He said that in May 2012, the airport had reached the 98,000 mark.
Observing the increase in air travellers, Rao said, "As compared to a year-on-year data, the airport has witnessed a growth of more than 13% in April to December last year."
13/01/13 Times of India
