Angkasa Pura Serves A Total Of 4.1 Million Passengers During Eid Holidays

Soekarno-Hatta Airport Tangerang Banten/PHOTO UNSPLASH/Fasyah Halim

JAKARTA - PT Angkasa Pura Indonesia (InJourney Airports) through Angkasa Pura I and II which manage a total of 35 airports have served as many as 4.1 million passenger movements during the 9 days operating of the Lebaran Command Post on 3-11 April 2024.

The number of passenger movements has increased by 7 percent compared to the same period at the Lebaran 2023 Command Post which reached 3.8 million passengers.

InJourney Airports also noted that it has served 31,779 aircraft movements during the 9-day Eid Post 2024 or grew by 6 percent compared to aircraft movements in the same period last year as many as 30,102 movements.

"Since the opening of the Lebaran 2024 Command Post at 35 airports managed, we have noted that there is a fairly good traffic growth compared to traffic at the Lebaran Post last year. Of course this is a very positive thing in the midst of InJourney Airports efforts to get to full recovery," said InJourney Airports President Director Faik Fahmi in a written statement, Friday, April 12.

The high traffic of InJourney Airports for 9 days was also supported by a number of airports, namely Soekarno-Hatta Airport with a total of 1.3 million passenger movements, followed by Bali's I Gusti Ngurah Rai Airport with 575,000 passenger movements and Juanda Airport Surabaya with a total of 381,000 passenger movements.

Then, Makassar Sultan Hasanuddin Airport with 259,000 passenger movements and Medan Kualanamu Airport with 201,000 passenger movements.

In addition, said Faik, his party also recorded as many as 677,000 passenger movements and 5,113 aircraft movements had been served at 35 airports during the Lebaran period, namely 10-11 April 2024.

Compared to traffic in the same period the previous year, this number experienced growth of 1 percent each for passenger movements and aircraft movements.

Faik added, after the peak of the homecoming flow that occurred on April 6 (H-4 Lebaran) ago, his party is currently preparing to welcome the peak of the backflow which is predicted to occur on April 15 (D+4 Lebaran).

"Of course we ensure that infrastructure, operations and personnel are in excellent condition. So, it can oversee the smooth running and operational safety of flights during this busy period," he added.