Vijayawada : The Vijayawada International Airport has been getting busier and patronage for air travel has been growing exponentially with more people taking the air route to travel between the capital city and various destinations in the country. The passenger traffic has increased by five times since 2014, the year in which the State was bifurcated.
According to the traffic reports by the Airports Authority of India, between April 2018 and March 2019 the city airport in Gannavaram handled 11.84 lakh international and domestic passengers registering a growth of 58.7 % in overall passenger traffic compared to the traffic of 7.46 lakh passengers in 2017-18 fiscal year.
The airport also registered a steep growth in the number of flights handled in the past fiscal. With a total of 19,026 movements handled between April 2018 and March 2019, the airport achieved a growth of 58%. In the previous year, the airport handled close to 12,000 movements.
International flight services did not add much to the overall growth of the airport traffic. The number of international passengers and aircraft handled since the launch of services in December 2018 is 6,294 and 69 respectively. The government expected higher occupancy ratio but it was just above 50% until March this year.
29/04/19 Tharun Boda/The Hindu
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According to the traffic reports by the Airports Authority of India, between April 2018 and March 2019 the city airport in Gannavaram handled 11.84 lakh international and domestic passengers registering a growth of 58.7 % in overall passenger traffic compared to the traffic of 7.46 lakh passengers in 2017-18 fiscal year.
The airport also registered a steep growth in the number of flights handled in the past fiscal. With a total of 19,026 movements handled between April 2018 and March 2019, the airport achieved a growth of 58%. In the previous year, the airport handled close to 12,000 movements.
International flight services did not add much to the overall growth of the airport traffic. The number of international passengers and aircraft handled since the launch of services in December 2018 is 6,294 and 69 respectively. The government expected higher occupancy ratio but it was just above 50% until March this year.
29/04/19 Tharun Boda/The Hindu
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