Ngurah Rai Airport Recorded An Increase In Passengers By 86 Percent

Bali/DOK Airport I Gusti Ngurah Rai Airport Public Relations Airport

DENPASAR - I Gusti Ngurah Rai Airport, Bali, recorded an increase in passenger growth of 86 percent from January-October 2023 compared to the same period in 2022.

General Manager of I Gusti Ngurah Rai Airport Handy Heryudhitiawan said the number of passengers this year reached 17,769,651 while January-October 2022 only served 9,568,853 passengers.

"Meanwhile, the total aircraft movements served are 113,277 aircraft movements or 70 percent grew from the same period last year as many as 66,758 movements," he said as quoted by ANTARA, Wednesday, November 29.

Over the past 10 months, 8,157,374 passengers were domestic passengers and 9,612,277 international passengers, and of the 113,277 aircraft movements, 61,058 of them were domestic aircraft movements and 52,219 international aircraft movements.

Handy said this increase was not only felt based on the January-October period, because if you look at October 2023 alone, I Gusti Ngurah Rai Airport recorded an increase of 41 percent compared to October 2022.

"In October alone, overall we recorded services to 1,943,330 passengers and 12,126 aircraft movements. There were 893,101 domestic passengers and 6,426 domestic aircraft movements," he said.

Meanwhile, internationally, they serve 1,050,229 passengers with 5,700 international aircraft movements or dominate 54 percent throughout October.

Throughout the month, the most domestic passengers of I Gusti Ngurah Rai Airport used the Jakarta route with a total of 449,358 passengers or as many as 50 percent of the total domestic ones, followed by Surabaya and Makassar.

For international routes, the busiest route during October 2023 is Singapore with 227,475 passengers, followed by Kuala Lumpur and Melbourne.

For foreign nationals (foreigners) until now, he admits that Australian foreigners still dominate arrivals with 122,285 Australians, then India with 35,967 people, and China with 26,051 people.

Due to this condition, Ngurah Rai Airport saw that growth was getting better, although not 100 percent the same as before the COVID-19 pandemic, at least 2023 recovery compared to 2019 reached 89 percent.

"In the last quarter of 2023, which is high season, the airport predicts that there will be a surge in passengers. In addition, there will be several additions and re-activation of domestic and international routes until the end of the year, so it is predicted that I Gusti Ngurah Rai Airport will serve up to 20 million passengers in 2023," said Handy.