Bengaluru: The Kempegowda International Airport served 12.39 million passengers and recorded 11.7% growth in overall traffic in the first half of the fiscal year 2017-18, stated the Bangalore International Airport Limited (BIAL), which runs the airport, on Monday
The domestic passenger traffic showed a growth of 13.3% compared with the previous year, while international passenger traffic grew at 3.6% compared with the same period. The average passenger movement per day clocked in at 67,700. The highest single day passenger traffic of 78,278 was recorded on May 19, 2017.
“Bengaluru’s airport is the busiest in South India and is the third largest in the country. Bengaluru is expanding fast and the use of the airport too is more. The KIA is seeing a positive growth over the last 10 years in both international and domestic travellers,” said a KIA spokesperson.
The Airport, now in its ninth year of operation, saw a steady growth in cargo traffic as well and has shown a substantial growth of 8.1 per cent to reach a total volume of 1,73,010 metric tonnes (MT), it said. The Airport's continuous focus on customer experience – of airlines as well as passengers – resulted in new quality benchmarks, assured service levels and high reliability, the spokesperson said.
“A lot of people visit Bengaluru for work and business.
The airport is built and maintained well. It is convenient when you have old people with you. I have had a very satisfactory experience bringing and taking my parents,” said a traveller, Praveen Chaudhary, who is the marketing head at Nippon Oil Pumps.
