Christmas And New Year Holidays, NTT El Tari Airport Serves 55,565 Passengers

Illustration of the situation at El Tari Kupang Airport, NTT. (Between)

NTT - Management of PT Angkasa Pura I at El Tari International Airport Kupang recorded that the number of travelers passing through the airport during the 2023 Christmas and 2024 New Year homecoming flows reached 55,565 people.

"When compared to the previous year's period, it decreased by 1.22 percent," said GM Angkasa Pura, El Tari Kupang Airport, Lilik Pujianto in Kupang, East Nusa Tenggara, Thursday, January 4, which was confiscated by Antara.

This was conveyed when met by reporters after leading the closing ceremony of the 2023 Christmas and 2024 New Year Command Posts for air transportation at El Tari Kupang Airport.

He said that in the previous year the number of travelers reached 56,251 travelers, both during homecoming and during backflow.

Lilik said that initially his party predicted that the movement of travelers during the homecoming and return flow through the airport could reach 76,536 percent.

This is because there is no longer COVID-19 and the rules for travelers have also been revoked so that travelers can travel more freely using air transportation.

However, on the way to the close of the post, it turned out to be down 27.40 percent from the figure predicted by the New Year's Christmas Command Post at El Tari Airport.

Based on daily data during the flow of homecoming and return to Christmas and New Year, the movement of travelers per day only reaches around 4 thousand, with details of 2 thousand travelers arriving and the rest leaving.

In addition to the passengers who got off, PT AP I El Tari International Airport also noted that the number of aircraft movements had also decreased by 32.51 percent from the previous year.

"This year the movement of aircraft only reached 652 aircraft. Last year it reached 718 movements," he added.

According to Lilik, the decline is different from the prediction that estimates that the aircraft movement will amount to 966 or the same as 40 aircraft movements per day.