Christmas-New Year Holidays, Passengers At Bali Airport Are Predicted To Increase To 1.3 Million Passengers

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

BADUNG - I Gusti Ngurah Rai International Airport, Bali, predicts that during the Christmas and New Year's Holidays (Nataru) it will serve 1.3 million passengers, an increase of 10 percent compared to 2023 which reached 1.2 million passengers.

General Manager of I Gusti Ngurah Rai Airport, Ahmad Syaugi Shahab, said that during the Christmas and New Year transportation period, I Gusti Ngurah Rai Airport is projected to serve more than 7,800 aircraft movements or an increase of 4 percent compared to the Naru period last year.

"Meanwhile, the prediction of the number of passengers who will be served for 19 days of the Nataru Command Post will reach 1.3 million passengers or 10 percent higher than the previous year's Naru as many as 1.2 million passengers," said Syaugi, Friday, December 10.

Regarding the submission of additional flights or extra flights as of Thursday (12/12), his party received 445 submissions from 7 airlines for 7 domestic routes, namely Jakarta, Surabaya, Makassar, Lombok, Timika, Pontianak, and Banjarmasin.

I Gusti Ngurah Rai Airport has ensured that all aspects of service and facilities are in top condition and ready to serve Christmas 2024 transportation and the new year 2025.

Coordination and collaboration with the entire airport community were taken as a step to anticipate the increasing number of aircraft movements and the potential for a surge in passengers.

Syaugi said that his party had prepared an airport operational plan for the Christmas-New Year period.

"The focus of our services is according to the company's pillar, namely premises, related to infrastructure readiness and facilities. Then people, in the form of airport personnel readiness and process, namely cross-agency collaboration to ensure the operation of Naru transportation runs well and smoothly," he added.

His party has ensured the readiness of flight safety and security facilities, passenger services, especially at each touch point, optimizing slot time flight schedules, as well as regulating the traffic of pick-up and delivery vehicles around airports.

In addition, a series of optimization projects that have been completed are expected to be able to increase comfort and increase the smooth flow of passengers and vehicles inside the airport.

"We have carried out regulations in areas inside terminals that are prone to density, including re-layouts in security check areas or Security Check Points (SCP)," he said.

Meanwhile, to anticipate the density of vehicle traffic from and to the airport, his party has received support from the Airport Resort Police, Kuta Resort Police, Ngurah Rai Air Base, Badung Regency Transportation Service, Tuban Traditional Village, and Kuta Traditional Village.

"We will place joint officers at several points prone to vehicle congestion, such as at the Dewi Sartika intersection, Anyar Kubu, and the Horse Statue intersection," he said.