Mumbai Airport Achieves Record Passenger Traffic Since Pandemic
Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Airport saw its highest-ever passenger traffic in 2024, handling millions, marking a significant increase from the previous year.
Breaking its own single-day record, Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport (CSMIA), one of the world’s busiest single runway airports, handled the highest passenger movement of 1,30,374 on September 17, 2022—the highest since the pandemic.
The growth in traffic is a result of newer destinations, rising flight movements and an increase in airline
capacity at Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport.
On September 17, 2022, close to 95,080 passengers travelled through Terminal 2 (T2) and 35,294 were witnessed travelling through Terminal 1 (T1) with a total of 839 flight movements on this day.
IndiGo Vistara & Go First catered for the highest passenger traffic, on domestic routes. As for international, IndiGo, Air India, and Emirates stood among the top three.
Delhi, Bengaluru, and Chennai were the top 3 domestic destinations while Dubai, Abu Dhabi & Singapore remained the top 3 international routes with maximum air traffic.
Adding to the weekend rush, on September 18, 2022, CSMIA again witnessed over 1.3 lakh passengers of which approximately 98,000+ passengers travelled domestically while around 32,000 pax were seen travelling on international routes.
According to rating agency Investment Information and Credit Rating Agency of India Limited (ICRA), domestic traffic rose to 5 per cent to 1.02 crore in August 2022, indicating that the aviation industry is set on the road to recovery with normalcy in flight operations.
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