Angkasa Pura I Serves 6.2 Million Passengers In May 2023

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JAKARTA - PT Angkasa Pura I noted that it has served 6,245,286 passenger movements throughout May 2023.

The number of passenger movements for the May 2023 period is also the highest monthly passenger movement rate since the pandemic period.

President Director of PT Angkasa Pura I Faik Fahmi said that this number grew by 27 percent compared to the May 2022 period which reached 4,921,407 passenger movements.

Growth also occurred in the number of aircraft movements with a total of 49,865 movements, or grew by 4 percent compared to the movement of aircraft in May 2022 which was 48,177 movements.

"Thank God, in May 2023, Angkasa Pura I will again continue its positive record of passenger and aircraft movement traffic growth," he said in an official statement, Friday, June 9.

"One thing that needs to be highlighted specifically is that the number of passenger movements in May 2023 is the highest monthly passenger number at 15 of our airports since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020," he continued.

Still, said Faik, when compared to the monthly average number of passengers in 2019 which reached 6.79 million passengers, the recovery rate or recovery rate for the number of passengers in May 2023 has reached 92 percent.

"Of course this is something we should be grateful for, as well as something very positive for the recovery of the company's operational performance this year," he said.

Faik explained that the number of passengers in May 2023 was divided into 5,041,952 passengers on domestic routes and 1,203,334 passengers on international routes. The number of passengers on international routes in May 2023 continues to record positive in 2023 which has increased every month in accordance with the growth of international passengers in Indonesia.

Faik said with the additional number of passengers in May 2023, cumulatively Angkasa Pura I has served 26,973,511 passenger movements from January to May 2023.

This number grew by 49 percent compared to the number of passenger movements in the same period in 2022 which reached 18,125,688 passenger movements.

In this period, Angkasa Pura I airport, which serves the largest passenger movements, is Bali's I Gusti Ngurah Rai Airport with 7,817,316 movements, with details of 3,638,822 passengers on domestic routes and 4,178,494 passengers on international routes.

The second order is Juanda Airport Surabaya with 5,578,225 passenger movements, with details of 4,788,957 passengers on domestic routes and 789,268 passengers on international routes.

In third place is Sultan Hasanuddin Airport Makassar with 4,232,601 passenger movements, with details of 4,082,138 passengers on domestic routes and 150,463 passengers on international routes.

In the midst of the trend of traffic growth in 2023, said Faik, his party is committed to maintaining and improving service quality to all airport service users with the aim of maintaining customer experience and service users' satisfaction.

Hal ini merupakan salah satu faktor penting untuk menjaga momentum pertumbuhan penumpang di tahun ini dan di masa yang akan datang, ucap Faik.