Sepinggan Balikpapan Airport Serves 305,000 Passengers During Homecoming And Eid Backflow

BALIKPAPAN - Sepinggan Airport in Balikpapan, East Kalimantan, serves 305,355 passengers during homecoming and back to Eid al-Fitr 1444 Hijri, until May 3, 2023.

"So on average we serve 16,071 people per day," said General Manager (GM) Ahmad Syaugi Shahab as quoted by Antara, Thursday, May 4.

During that time there were also a total of 2,757 aircraft movements on the airport apron, or 145 movements per day.

The data comes from notes from the Integrated Post for Air Transport Lebaran 1444 H in 2023 at the Sepinggan Airport Departure Terminal.

"The peak of the homecoming flow occurred on April 19, 2023, with the number of passengers departing reaching 12,388 people and the peak of backflow on May 1, 2023 with the number of arriving passengers reaching 11,004 people," continued GM Syaugi.

This number is 48 percent more than the peak of the Lebaran 1443 Hijri homecoming flow in 2022, where there are 8,337 passengers departing via Sepinggan Airport.

The number of passengers on the backflow is also 44 percent because the number of passengers at the peak of Lebaran's backflow in 2022 was 7,629 people.

The number of passengers and the movement of this aircraft is a guide for airport managers to continue to prepare qualified services for passengers, whether they want to leave or come.

The number of daily passengers that must be served is the basis for how many officers must be lowered, how many checkpoints must be opened, to the arrangement of the cleaning staff's work schedule.

"So that passengers who just got off the plane, for example, when they rushed to the toilet at the terminal, they still found a clean and dry toilet, even though they had just been used by a previous group of passengers," explained GM Syaugi.

The record is also very useful for airlines, for example, to determine the number of passenger registration tables that must be opened and determine the staff serving them.