Eid Backflow: 168 Thousand Passengers Pass Via Soetta Airport On D+5 Eid Al-Fitr

TANGERANG - PT Angkasa Pura Indonesia Soekarno-Hatta International Airport Branch Office (Soetta), Tangerang, Banten, recorded 168,892 passengers via Soetta Airport, until Saturday 5 April or five days after Eid 2025.

"This data is divided into departures and arrivals during the Eid holiday," said Ass. Deputy Communication and Legal at Soekarno-Hatta Airport, M Holik Muardi, quoted by ANTARA, Sunday, April 6.

Since the D+2 Eid holiday, he said, the traffic of the movement of flight passengers at Soetta Airport has begun to increase after a decline in Lebaran 2025.

After the second day of Lebaran, or Wednesday, April 4, 147,394 passengers passed through the largest airport in Indonesia.

Meanwhile, on Thursday (3/4) or D+3 Lebaran, passenger movement data recorded 150,006 people crossing, then on Friday (4/4) the passenger figure at Soetta Airport decreased slightly to 146,105 people.

Of the total 168,892 passengers at Soetta Airport on Saturday, he said, the average number of passenger movements at Terminals 1, 2 and 3 per day is currently increasing.

Holik said the number of 168,892 passengers was divided into two flights, including the departure of 76,335 passengers and the arrival of 92,557 passengers.

Based on passenger movements from crossings at Terminal 1 as many as 45,176 people, while aircraft movements as many as 275 flights or 25.68 percent.

At Terminal 2 there were 58,987 people with 384 flights, then the number of passenger movements at Terminal 3 was 64,729 people with 404 flights.

Of the total number of flights currently occurring, he continued, there was a movement of aircraft at the departure of 539 aircraft movements and arrivals of 532 aircraft to total flights to 1,071 aircraft.

In this case, PT Angkasa Pura Indonesia (InJourney Airports) predicts that the peak return flow for the 2025 Eid holiday at 37 airport flights in Indonesia will occur on April 6-7, 2025.

"After Lebaran, it is projected that around April 7, 2025 will be the peak of backflow at flight airports," said InJourney Airports President Director Faik Fahmi.

He said, on Friday (28/03) as the peak of the Lebaran homecoming flow, for example at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport (Soetta), Tangerang, Banten, cumulatively reached around 148,000 passengers, of which the average passengers crossing per day from March 21 to 28, were 155,000 people.

"And on March 28 it was specifically the peak of the homecoming flow before the Eid celebration period," he said.