The Mangaluru Interantional Airport has recorded an increase in its passenger traffic on its domestic and international routes.
IndiGo and Air India saw a passenger traffic of 87.5% on the domestic destinations they help connect directly in the first five months of the current financial year. On the other hand, Air India Express and IndiGo recorded 81.7% passenger traffic on international routes.
As per a press release by the MIA, IndiGo and Air India had 2,80,739 passengers against a seating capacity of 3,21,554 on flights landing at Mangaluru from Bengaluru, Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Mumbai and Pune.
Passenger traffic
The arrivals from Mumbai were the highest with 1,12,973 passengers travelling against a seating capacity of 1,23,836. Pune had the least load factor of 69% with 11,078 travellers against 16,062 seats on offer.
The domestic flights departing from MIA saw passenger loads of 89.91% and 89.66% for Chennai and Hyderabad, respectively. In total, 10,520 passengers travelled to Chennai against 11,700 seats on offer and 21,370 passengers travelled to Hyderabad against the available 23,836 seats. Mumbai stood third with a load factor of 87.3% with 1,08,695 passengers travelling against 1,23,836 available seats.
In case of international destinations, the airlines witnessed a load of 81.7% for 1,10,823 passengers arriving from Abu Dhabi, Bahrain, Dammam, Doha, Dubai, Kuwait and Muscat. In the period between April and August, the seats on offer for all those places were 1,35,626.
The departure load factor for the above-mentioned international destinations from MIA was at 83.3% 1,12,930 passengers travelling against a capacity of 1,35,449.
Airlines carried 67,538 passengers against a capacity of 76,841 from Dubai to Mangalur, a passenger load of 88.26%. Following Dubai, Abu Dhabi was the second busiest with an arriving passenger load of 85.65%. It also surfaced as the most sought after international destination from Mangaluru. It recorded a load factor of 90.12 per cent with 14,276 passengers travelling against 15,840 seats available.
The month of August saw a total of 1,66,047 passengers travelling. The arrival load factor for the month to the 13 destinations was 83% with 79,377 passengers travelling. Departures saw a load factor of 90% with 86,670 passengers emplaning against 96,837 seats on offer. With additional domestic flights scheduled in the upcoming winter schedule, more people are expected to travel to and from Mangaluru.
(With PTI inputs)