Chennai: Despite inadequate passenger amenities, the city airport has registered a 12.5% growth in passenger traffic this year when compared to the previous year. Chennai ranks third among the metro airports in passenger growth as per Airports Authority of India (AAI) statistics for April 2018 to February 2019 and the same period previous year.
AAI officials said the airport saw a good number of passengers in March and was confident that the growth percentage would be good this financial year when compared to last year. The airport saw 10.2% increase in passenger traffic the previous year. Statistics between April 2018 and February 2019 shows that the airport handled 2,08,24,129 (more than 20 million) passengers as against 1,85,05,152 who travelled in the corresponding period last year. Domestic passenger footfalls at the city airport grew 14.1%. The total figure stands at 1,53,52,637 compared to 1,34,53,024 last year.
Though the city’s growth is better than that of Mumbai and Delhi, neighbouring Bengaluru airport handled around 30 million passengers during the same period, mostly because of industrial growth in Karnataka.
A senior AAI official said the passenger growth was healthy and additions to the existing facility were being planned taking into account the growth percentage.
“We are upgrading the airport to make it capable of handling 30 million passengers a year. The airport will be able to handle more passengers when the new integrated terminal is ready and ongoing work to build taxiways are completed,” he added.
02/04/19 Times of India
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AAI officials said the airport saw a good number of passengers in March and was confident that the growth percentage would be good this financial year when compared to last year. The airport saw 10.2% increase in passenger traffic the previous year. Statistics between April 2018 and February 2019 shows that the airport handled 2,08,24,129 (more than 20 million) passengers as against 1,85,05,152 who travelled in the corresponding period last year. Domestic passenger footfalls at the city airport grew 14.1%. The total figure stands at 1,53,52,637 compared to 1,34,53,024 last year.
Though the city’s growth is better than that of Mumbai and Delhi, neighbouring Bengaluru airport handled around 30 million passengers during the same period, mostly because of industrial growth in Karnataka.
A senior AAI official said the passenger growth was healthy and additions to the existing facility were being planned taking into account the growth percentage.
“We are upgrading the airport to make it capable of handling 30 million passengers a year. The airport will be able to handle more passengers when the new integrated terminal is ready and ongoing work to build taxiways are completed,” he added.
02/04/19 Times of India
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