H-2 Christmas, Number Of Passengers Coming Through Ngurah Rai Airport Swells

During the Christmas holidays and before the New Year, tourist arrivals through Ngurah Rai airport exploded. (Irfan Medianto VOI)

DENPASAR - I Gusti Ngurah Rai Airport, Bali, recorded an increase in passengers served during D-2 Christmas, namely Saturday, December 23, beyond predictions, where if you look at the data since the Christmas and New Year's Command Post was opened to this day, Saturday is the day with the most solid service.

Based on data submitted by General Manager of I Gusti Ngurah Rai Airport Handy Heryudhitiawan in Denpasar, Monday, 38,042 domestic passengers were served with the dominance of 21,509 of them were arriving passengers.

Furthermore, 37,198 international passengers were served with 20,753 passengers who came to dominate, while initially Handy predicted the peak movement of passengers at Christmas at 35 thousand passengers for domestic and 32 thousand international.

It was stated that the average daily passenger at Ngurah Rai Airport was 28 thousand for domestic and 30 thousand for international, so this D-2 Christmas recorded new achievements with a total of 75,240 passengers in a day.

In fact, Handy had predicted that the peak of passenger movement would occur on D-3, or Friday (22/12) which first broke the prediction with a total of 73,377 passengers served.

"On the first day (Christmas Post) December 19, there were 60,001 passengers recorded, the next day December 20 increased to 62,610 passengers, the third day December 21 reached 65,941 passengers, and on the fourth day December 22, 73,377 passengers who also exceeded the prediction of the peak movement of passengers, which we estimate is 72,754 passengers, or 0.8 percent above the prediction," Handy said as reported by Antara.

On D-2 Christmas 2023, the increase in passengers is accompanied by heavy aircraft traffic, where in a day 252 domestic aircraft movements occur in the Bali sky, and 195 international aircraft.

Thus, if the accumulation since the Christmas Command Post was opened, the movement of aircraft from 19-23 December 2023 is 2,097 movements, with 337,169 passengers in 5 days. During the five days the busiest route is the Jakarta route with 18,368 passengers, followed by Singapore with 8,104 passengers, and Surabaya with 5,862 passengers.