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Traffic on Chinese routes buoyed Changi Airport in the first nine months |
SINGAPORE. Changi Airport handled 14.3 million passengers in the three months to the end of September, up by +5.8% year-on-year and a record for any quarter. The figures were boosted by an increase in passengers travelling with low-cost carriers following a period of depressed demand, said Changi Airport Group.
The airport handled 4.42 million passengers in September 2015, an increase of +3.9% year-on-year.
For the quarter, traffic was positive for nine of Changi Airport’s top ten country markets with China registering the strongest growth of +14.9% on-year. However, passenger movements between Singapore and Indonesia declined -0.4% even as Indonesia remained Changi’s top market for the period, followed by Malaysia, China, Australia and Thailand.
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In the first nine months of 2015, 40.9 million passengers travelled through the airport, +2.1% more than the same period a year ago.
Jakarta continued to top the list of Changi Airport’s busiest routes so far this year, followed closely by Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok, Hong Kong and Manila. Traffic between Singapore and Bangkok has registered growth of more than +20% year-to-date, the highest rate of growth among Changi’s top 20 destinations.
Among new services launched at Changi, Tigerair launched a three times weekly flight to Quanzhou, China on 28 September. Along with Guangzhou, Guilin, Haikou, Jinan, Nanning, Ningbo, Shenzhen and Xi’an, it is the ninth Chinese city in the airline’s network. In Thailand, Thai Lion Air doubled the frequency of its daily Bangkok-Singapore service, effective from 16 September.
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