M'luru airport handles more intl passengers in first 2 months this year

Press Trust of India

Mangaluru: The Mangaluru International Airport (MIA), the second busiest airport in Karnataka, handled 2,00,527 national and 92,290 foreign travellers in the first two months of the calendar year.

The MIA had handled 1,38,510 domestic and 56,506 international passengers in the corresponding two months of the previous calendar year, thus effectively ensuring that MIA handled 97,801 more passengers in the first two months of this calendar year, a release from the Adani-run MIA said here Sunday.

With more routes and airports opening, the development of airports has improved increasing the country's investment opportunities while simultaneously increasing job prospects, the release said. All seven Adani airports saw an increase of 92 per cent in domestic and 133 percent in international travellers.

There has been a rise in the number of domestic flights by 58 percent and international flights by 61 percent. The air traffic jumped by around 100 percent compared to the previous year, taking the number to prepandemic levels with more than 14.25 million passengers using these airports during the last year. This upward trend is expected to continue and it is anticipated that the number of trips people will take in a year will increase.

One of the factors driving this growth is the restart of tourism after the pandemic. Being the second busiest airport in the country, Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport (CSMIA) recorded nearly 8.44 million passenger movements in JanuaryFebruary this year. CSMIA witnessed nearly 2.22 million international and 6.22 million domestic passengers.