Up 18 Percent, AP I Serves 1.5 Million Passengers On Christmas Holidays

Illustration of Rupiah (photo: dock. intermediate)

JAKARTA - PT Angkasa Pura I (AP I) through 15 airports managed noted that it had served 1,510,218 passenger movements during the seven operational days of the 2023 Christmas and 2024 New Year Command Posts. This number increased 18 percent compared to last year.

The Christmas and New Year periods in question are from 19 December to D Christmas or 25 December.

AP1 President Director Faik Fahmi said the passenger movement was also supported by 11,783 aircraft movements during that period.

Faik said the number of passenger movements grew by 18 percent compared to records in the same period last year which reached 1,276,406 passenger movements.

Meanwhile, the movement of aircraft also grew by 11 percent compared to records in the same period last year which reached 10,642 movements.

"Since the operation of the Nataru Command Post on December 19 last week, the curve of passenger movement has tended to continue to climb from day to day, and reached the peak on December 23. We predict that this curve will start moving up again on December 26, where we predict it will be the peak of the return flow of the Christmas holiday," he said in an official statement, Wednesday, December 27.

During the seven-day operational period of the Christmas and New Year's Command Post, continued Faik, Bali's I Gusti Ngurah Rai Airport served the highest traffic with a total of 462,888 passenger movements and 2,903 aircraft movements.

Then in second place is Juanda Airport Surabaya with 302,366 passenger movements and 1,993 aircraft movements.

"In third place is Sultan Hasanuddin Airport Makassar with 217,571 passenger movements and 1,604 aircraft movements," he explained.

AP I also noted that it has served as many as 465 additional flights or extra flights for the period 19-25 December.

The top three airports with the most extra flight realizations are Bali's I Gusti Ngurah Rai Airport with 157 flights, Surabaya Juanda Airport with 69 flights, and Makassar Sultan Hasanuddin Airport with 43 flights.