Ngurah Rai Airport Serves 20 Million Passengers Until October 2025, There Are 14 New Routes

Documentation of the arrival of passengers for the January-October 2025 period at I Gusti Ngurah Rai Airport, Badung, Bali. (ANTARA/Ni Putu Putri Muliantari)

DENPASAR - Airport Management I Gusti Ngurah Rai Denpasar, Bali, recorded that it has served 20.32 million passengers in the period from January to October 2025.

"During that period there were 20.32 million passengers who were served as a whole with an average service (per day) reaching 67 thousand passengers," said I Gusti Ngurah Rai Airport Daily Executive General Manager Ibnu Solikin, Thursday, November 27.

He explained that the tens of millions of passengers were transported by 50 airlines, both domestic and international, where until now Ngurah Rai Airport serves 57 flight routes, namely 36 domestic routes and 21 international routes.

In the January-October 2025 period, Ibnu noted that the airport in southern Bali had 14 additional flights by 10 airlines.

Of the 14 new flight activations, 13 of them are international routes, namely Trans Nusa airlines with routes Perth, Guangzhou and Singapore; Indonesia Air Asia with Darwin and Adelaide routes; IndiGo with the route Mumbai and New Delhi.

Also Saudia Airlines on the Singapore route; Thai Lion Air on the route Don Mueang Thailand; Jetstar Airways on the Newcastle route; Sichuan Air on the route of China's Sichuan City; T'Way Air on the Cheongju route, South Korea; and Vietnam Airlines on the Saigon route.

"Meanwhile, the latest domestic connectivity is served by Super Air Jet which is now serving the Manado route," he said.

I Gusti Ngurah Rai Airport also noted that among the entire flight, there were four routes that were first to fly there, namely the route between Sichuan, Cheongju, Mumbai and Newcastle.

For Ibnu, the operation of these new routes further expands access for tourists and the public to travel abroad to and from Bali.

In addition to the new route, there are also three airlines that are operating regularly at I Gusti Ngurah Rai Airport for the first time starting this year, namely Saudia Airlines with Singapore routes, Sichuan Airlines with the Sichuan route, and Tway Air with the Cheongju route.

According to Ibnu, this increase in accessibility is the result of a close collaboration between airport operators, airlines and various stakeholders in the airport environment.

"We, together with related parties, continue to synergize to expand the flight network strategically, in addition to targeting route strengthening through increasing frequency, we are also trying to open new routes that serve direct flights to I Gusti Ngurah Rai Airport," he said again.

The condition of January-October 2025 also shows that the demand for tourists to vacation in Bali is very high. This can be seen from the growth in international passenger traffic until October 2025 reaching 12.8 million passengers, an increase of 9 percent compared to the same period the previous year.

"I Gusti Ngurah Rai Airport is committed to making a positive contribution to the aviation and tourism sector by expanding the connectivity network of Bali Island to various domestic and foreign destinations," he said.

Still in the same period January-October 2025, growth was also felt at the airport on cargo services.

It was recorded that 88,081,960 kg of cargo had been served, growing 9.5 percent compared to the same period in 2024 which amounted to 80,442,022 kg.

Of the total, international cargo controls 79 percent or 62,605,436 kg, with the highest volume serving the Doha, Hong Kong, Sydney, Singapore, and Shanghai routes and based on its commodity types, the most dominant international cargo in the form of marine products, public cargo, and perishable goods.

Meanwhile, domestic cargo contributed 25,476,524 kg or 21 percent of the total cargo production in 2025 with the highest routes of Cengkareng, Makassar, Surabaya, Jakarta (Halim) and Kupang.