SINGAPORE, July 23 – Passenger traffic at Singapore Changi Airport increased 6.1 per cent in June 2013, with 4.67 million passengers passing through the airport.
Changi Airport Group said this marked the highest number of passenger movement the airport had handled in a month this year.
In terms of flight movements, a total of 28,300 aircraft landings and take-offs were recorded, a growth of 6.1 per cent, year-on-year, it said in a statement today.
Air traffic to and from Southeast Asia, Northeast Asia, South Asia and the Middle East also grew.
The haze situation in Singapore during the month had no discernable impact on passenger and aircraft movements.
For the first six months of 2013, Changi Airport managed 26.2 million passengers, an increase of 5.0 per cent, compared with the corresponding period in 2012.
Aircraft movements rose in tandem by 4.6 per cent to 166,800.
With more than 6,600 weekly scheduled flights, an aircraft takes off or lands at Changi roughly once every 100 seconds.
– BERNAMA
