I Gusti Ngurah Rai Bali Becomes The Busiest AP I Airport In Semester I 2023

Garuda Indonesia aircraft is leaning at I Gusti Ngurah Rai Airport, Bali. (Photo: Doc. Twitter @baliairports)

JAKARTA - Angkasa Pura I noted that Bali's I Gusti Ngurah Rai Airport served the number of busiest passenger and aircraft movements during the first semester of 2023. AP I noted that there were 9,744,321 passenger movements and 64,648 aircraft movements at the airport.

The number of passenger movements in the first semester of 2023 jumped by 127 percent compared to the record in the first semester of 2022 which reached 4,296,351 passenger movements. Meanwhile, aircraft movements experienced a growth of 103 percent compared to the first semester of 2022 which reached 31,872 aircraft movements.

President Director of PT Angkasa Pura I Faik Fahmi said Bali's I Gusti Ngurah Rai Airport is also Angkasa Pura I airport which recorded the highest passenger growth from 15 airports managed in the first semester of 2023.

"Of course, it is supported by the increasing interest of the Indonesian people to return to traveling to Bali, and at the same time a positive signal that Bali is still a tourism destination that is very attractive," he said in an official statement, Friday, July 21.

In the first semester of 2023, Bali's I Gusti Ngurah Rai Airport also recorded a very significant growth in the number of international route passenger movements, which was 5.1 million passengers compared to 752 thousand passengers in the first semester of 2022.

Furthermore, Faik said, the number of passengers on international routes served by Bali's I Gusti Ngurah Rai Airport in the first semester of 2023 had exceeded the number of passengers on international routes served throughout 2022 which reached 4.5 million passengers.

After I Gusti Ngurah Rai, AP1 airport with the highest number of passenger movements in the first semester of 2023 was Juanda Airport Surabaya and Sultan Hasanuddin Airport Makassar.

Juanda Airport Surabaya serves 6,775,845 passenger movements divided into 5,830,288 passengers on domestic routes and 945,557 passengers on international routes.

Meanwhile, Sultan Hasanuddin Airport Makassar serves 5,172,271 passenger movements divided into 4,990,920 passengers on domestic routes and 181,351 passengers on international routes.

Meanwhile, for most aircraft movements, Juanda Airport is in second place with 47,031 movements consisting of 41,353 movements of domestic routes and 5,678 movements of international routes.

Sultan Hasanuddin Airport Makassar is recorded as serving the third most aircraft movements with 41,087 movements consisting of 40,013 domestic route movements and 1,074 international route movements.

"If accumulated, the three airports serve 21.6 million passenger movements and 152,766 aircraft movements, or cover 66 percent of the total passenger movements and 56 percent of the total aircraft movements at 15 of our airports during the first semester of 2023," said Faik.