Ambon Pattimura Airport Passengers Predicted To Soar 20 Percent On D-3 Eid 2022

Illustration of a queue of passengers at the airport. (Between)

AMBON - Passenger density at Ambon's Pattimura Airport is predicted to increase by around 20 percent on D-3 Lebaran 2022. This week, the surge in the number of passengers has been felt at the airport.

Legal Compliance and Stakeholder Relations Manager PT Angkasa Pura I Pattimura Airport Ambon Branch Aditya Narendra said the prediction was based on his party's calculations on the increase in the number of passengers.

"For yesterday's D-7 position, departure and arrival activities for Lebaran passengers through Ambon's Pattimura Airport have increased by 10 percent compared to the previous month," said Aditya in Ambon, Maluku, quoted from Antara, Tuesday, April 26.

According to him, the number of passengers who arrived (arrival) at Pattimura Airport on Monday (25/4) was 1,208 people, and those who departed (departure) were 1.435 people.

When compared with the number of passengers arriving and departing through Pattimura Airport in the previous month, such as March 2022, there were more than 96,000 passengers.

Monitoring and evaluation of the development of the number of passengers is carried out after the integrated post for Lebaran transportation at Pattimura Airport began operating on April 25 and will continue until May 10, 2022.

This post is used as an information center for supporting services for passengers when going back and forth and returning to Eid.

It is said, thousands of passengers going home for Idul Fitri at Pattimura Airport are served by 21 arriving flights and 20 flights departing from outside the area.

Then, the scheduled flights currently operating at Ambon's Pattimura Airport are Garuda, Citilink, Lion Air, Wings Air, Batik Air, Sriwijaya Air, and Trigana Air airlines.

Meanwhile, the pioneering flight to a number of airports in the Maluku region is the airline Sam Air.