20 October 2023
Malaysia Airports Holdings Bhd (MAHB) has seen a significant resurgence in aviation activity during the third quarter of 2023.
MAHB said this is due to the introduction of three new airlines and multiple new routes by existing partner airlines across its network of airports in Malaysia.
Malaysia welcomed Salam Air, Super AirJet and Sichuan Airlines at Kuala Lumpur International Airport, while existing partner airlines added 12 new destinations and resumed seven routes on top of their current services.
“The increase in flight offerings contributed to the total number of local passenger movements last quarter at 21.7 million. The number reached more than 80 per cent recovery of the total quarterly traffic for the first time over the same period in 2019,” MAHB said today.
For September, MAHB registered 6.9 million total passenger movements for airports in Malaysia, accounting for 67 per cent of its total movements of 10.3 million passengers.
Despite the typhoon affecting some parts of China, Hong Kong, Macau, the Philippines, Taiwan and Japan last month, the group’s local airports registered 3.3 million total international passengers.
This pushed its passenger traffic to 79.3 per cent of the 2019 levels. It was also the highest monthly traffic recovery since 2019.
“The domestic sector registered 3.6 million passenger movements, reaching 86.7 per cent of 2019 levels. On the whole, performance for Malaysia in September 2023 reached 83.0 per cent of September 2019 levels,” it said.
MAHB’s airport in Turkey, Istanbul Sabiha Gokcen International Airport, recorded 3.4 million total passenger movements in September.
This was encouraging as the airport continued to sustain above the three million mark at the tail end of the summer travel season, it added.
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Source: www.nst.com.my
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