Ngurah Rai Airport Predicts There Will Be 1.67 Million Passengers To And From Bali During School Holidays

Documentation of domestic tourists upon arrival at I Gusti Ngurah Rai Airport, Bali, Denpasar. (DOC. ANTARA)

DENPASAR - It is estimated that 1.67 million potential passengers will travel from and to Bali during the 2025 school holidays. This was revealed by the management of I Gusti Ngurah Rai Airport.

"We predict that during the school holiday period from June 23 to July 14, 2025, there will be 1.67 million passengers with 9,884 flights traveling through I Gusti Ngurah Rai Airport," said Acting General Manager of I Gusti Ngurah Rai Airport Wahyudi in Denpasar, as reported by ANTARA, Friday, June 27.

During the three weeks of school holidays, it is estimated that there will be a peak movement on July 6, 2025 with 78 thousand passengers and 460 aircraft movements in a day.

Wahyudi saw the increase in the number of passengers had been seen since the last 10 days, where the trend began to increase to reach 70 thousand to 78 thousand passengers in a day.

"So over the next month the airport will be more crowded than normal days, which on average serve 61 thousand passengers and 378 flights a day," said Wahyudi.

In the momentum of this school holiday, I Gusti Ngurah Rai Airport said it had compiled steps to anticipate an increase in passenger volume.

In addition to the aspects of people, processes, and premises, Wahyudi said that they are now supported by technology in the form of traffic-based operations management (management operation based on traffic-MOT).

"With the MOT system, we can project passenger volume for the next few days, including crucial points that have the potential to cause density or long queues, from there we can prepare mitigation and handling steps," he said.

This is important to ensure smooth operation, because this technology forms a pattern of fulfilling services from being reactive to being predictive and proactive.

Thus, it is hoped that the quality of service in the high times of visits can be maintained, starting from the terminal, flight operations on the air side, to transportation services in the land side area.

"During crowded seasons such as this school vacation, we will also optimize the operational control center (AOCC), in addition to strengthening the process of integrated services between agencies, communication lines and coordination are also more effective and efficient," Wahyudi said.

Seeing the trend of this surge in passengers, Bali's I Gusti Ngurah Airport anticipates also their infrastructure, especially at service points such as check-in services, inspection of passengers and goods, handling of baggage, and the departure process.

In addition, there is also an increase in the supervision of passenger flow and the flow of incoming and departing vehicles so that the entire process can run optimally.

This effort is not only carried out to welcome the long school holidays, but also because the increase in traffic is expected to continue until August entering the summer holiday for foreign tourists.

"For this reason, in addition to focusing on fulfilling operational standards, I Gusti Ngurah Rai Airport will also provide more experience for passengers and service users, through thematic programs," he said.