KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia Airports Holdings Bhd (MAHB) has continued to report greater than 11 million for the second consecutive month in August 2023 at its community of airports in Malaysia and Turkiye.
The airport operator mentioned Malaysia accounted for greater than 66 p.c or 7.4 million of the overall 11.2 million passengers.
In the meantime, the group’s Turkiye operations registered 3.8 million passenger actions — a 3 p.c enhance from the three.7 million passengers registered in July 2023, it mentioned in an announcement at this time.
On the native entrance, airports in Malaysia registered 3.5 million and three.9 million passengers for the worldwide and home sectors respectively in August 2023.
August 2023 additionally noticed the very best common complete each day passenger actions for the year-to-date at 240,000 passengers.
“This was partly pushed by the six state elections on Aug 12, the additional public vacation declared on Aug 13 post-election, and the Nationwide Day celebration that coincided with the college holidays.
“Site visitors actions are displaying a development that’s just like pre-pandemic intervals the place site visitors peaks throughout festive seasons, college holidays and public holidays, indicating that journey developments are progressively normalising,“ it mentioned.
MAHB mentioned extra airways have additionally restructured their routes with obtainable lively fleets which are in operation, leading to extra flights to the Northeast Asia area, in addition to resumption of routes to pre-pandemic locations.
It famous {that a} myriad of airline actions passed off final month, such because the graduation of each day Lombok-KLIA and Surabaya-KLIA flights by the brand new airline, Tremendous Air Jet, in addition to the each day Chennai-KLIA flights by Batik Air Indonesia.
In the meantime, Batik Air Malaysia launched six weekly KLIA-Auckland flights, 4 weekly KLIA-Okinawa flights and twice weekly KLIA-Jeddah flights.
For route resumption, AirAsia resumed its KLIA-Vientiane 4 weekly flights whereas Batik Air Malaysia resumed its each day KLIA-Hong Kong flights.
The Penang Worldwide Airport was additionally a beneficiary of AirAsia’s newly launched thrice weekly flights to Hong Kong, in addition to each day flights to Kuala Namu by Batik Air Indonesia.
As for the Istanbul Sabiha Gokcen Worldwide Airport in Turkiye, MAHB mentioned its complete passenger actions in August 2023 proceed to exceed 2019’s pre-pandemic ranges at 3.8 million passengers, marking a development of 8.4 p.c over the identical month in 2019.
“This sustained site visitors development momentum was contributed by summer season vacation travelling, airline route expansions and flight resumption to Northeast Asia locations.
“Throughout the month, Turkish low-cost carriers, Pegasus and Anadolujet had additionally launched new companies to Kastomonu, a home vacation spot with one weekly flight every,“ added MAHB. – Bernama
