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This week, the global community of airport innovators, start-ups, visionary thinkers, researchers and top tech minds gathers at Rome Fiumicino Airport for AIRPORTS INNOVATE 2024. The conference, organised jointly by ACI EUROPE, ACI Asia-Pacific & Middle East and ACI World, and hosted by Aeroporti di Roma, will chart the future of air travel, pooling innovative solutions, groundbreaking tools and know-how from across the globe.
During FY 2023-2024, Kempegowda International Airport Bengaluru (KIAB / BLR Airport) witnessed the highest-ever annual passenger traffic and cargo numbers, with a total of 37.53 million passengers traversing through its terminals and 439,524 metric tonnes (MT) of cargo passing through the BLR Airport. BLR Airport catered to 32.86 million domestic passengers and 4.67 million international passengers during this period.
Auckland Airport Chief Customer Officer, Scott Tasker, said while the number of flights and seat capacity was lower than the same time pre-pandemic, Auckland Airport will still be busy as the first school holidays of the year kick off.
Mangaluru International Airport ticked all the right boxes in areas which define growth for an airport – passengers handled and air traffic movements (ATMs) – for the financial year 2023-2024. This is in line with global and national trends which has seen robust growth in aviation sector ever since the global pandemic served as the travel disruptor. In doing so, the airport has handled the highest passengers and ATMs since commercial operation date (CoD).
The 2024 summer season starts from March 31, 2024. In the new season, the daily scheduled flights will increase 11.5% to 2,481 flights at two airports in Shanghai with 1,699 flights at Pudong International Airport and 782 flights at Hongqiao International Airport.
As the non-Japanese traffic exceeded the 2019 pre-COVID level at 105%*, and the Japanese traffic was also on a recovery trend, at 60%* compared to the same month in 2019, the entire passenger traffic for international flights recovered at 91%* vs. 2019.
Airport Authority Hong Kong (AAHK) today released air traffic figures for Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA) for February 2024. During the month, HKIA handled 4.2 million passengers and 27,615 flight movements, representing increases of 96.5% and 69.3%, respectively, when compared with the low base in the same month last year.
Airport International Group announced that Queen Alia International Airport (QAIA) welcomed 676,355 passengers (PAX) in February, marking a 4.5% increase compared to 2023 figures. QAIA also registered 5,396 aircraft movements (ACM) and handled 6,571 tons of cargo, down 0.1% and up 46.8%, respectively, against the same period last year.
The number of foreign passengers for international flights was 97%, the same level before the outbreak of COVID-19, making the total number of international passengers 84% of the same month in 2020.
China’s “Chunyun”, travel rush during the Chinese Spring Festival, is one of the world’s largest people migration in a short period of time. The traffic of Shanghai airports during the Chinese Spring Festival has hit a record high, 395,000 passengers in a single day.
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