Chennai: It looks like Chennai is losing ground to Bangalore as the southern gateway for business and tourism owing to deficiencies at the city airport.
After overtaking Chennai in domestic passenger traffic, Bangalore airport is inching closer to Chennai in terms of international passenger traffic.
Bangalore's annual international passenger traffic is only 50% of Chennai's, but the airport has been registering a higher rate of growth for the past three years. Last year, Bangalore's domestic traffic grew at double the pace of Chennai and the international traffic at more than six times. The trend has continued into the first quarter of this year.
Last year, Chennai handled 44 lakh international passengers, while Bangalore had 25 lakh of them. But statistics compiled by the Airports Authority of India (AAI) shows that the passenger traffic grew at the rate of 6.5% in Bangalore while it was 3.6% in Chennai in 2012-13.
21/09/13 V Ayyappan/Times of India
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After overtaking Chennai in domestic passenger traffic, Bangalore airport is inching closer to Chennai in terms of international passenger traffic.
Bangalore's annual international passenger traffic is only 50% of Chennai's, but the airport has been registering a higher rate of growth for the past three years. Last year, Bangalore's domestic traffic grew at double the pace of Chennai and the international traffic at more than six times. The trend has continued into the first quarter of this year.
Last year, Chennai handled 44 lakh international passengers, while Bangalore had 25 lakh of them. But statistics compiled by the Airports Authority of India (AAI) shows that the passenger traffic grew at the rate of 6.5% in Bangalore while it was 3.6% in Chennai in 2012-13.
21/09/13 V Ayyappan/Times of India
