AP I Projects Passenger Mobility At 15 Airports To Reach 50 Million By The End Of 2022

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JAKARTA - President Director of PT Angkasa Pura I (Persero) or AP I Faik Fahmi projects that the movement of passengers at the 15 airports he manages will reach up to 50 million passengers by the end of 2022.

According to Faik, the projection is based on passenger movement traffic until August 2022, which has reached 32 million passengers, passing the last two years of achievement during the COVID-19 pandemic.

"We project that by the end of the year it will probably reach around 50 million passengers a year," he said, quoted from Antara, Tuesday, September 13.

As the airport manager, explained Faik, AP I became one of the parties affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The reason is, the government limits the movement of aircraft passengers to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

In early 2020, when the pandemic first hit Indonesia, the government banned international flights and restricted the movement of domestic passengers so that passenger mobility plummeted.

"Indeed, this government policy is compared to the conditions for the spread of COVID-19, when COVID-19 spiked significantly, traffic movements in the air were severely restricted," he said.

This can also be seen from the number of passenger mobility, which in 2018 AP I served 95.6 million passengers, then 80 million passengers in 2019, and with the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, there were only 32 million passenger mobility.

"Going back in 2021 as many as 28.5 million and for 2022, Alhamdulillah, conditions are much better. We report that until August the movement of passengers has reached 32 million," he said.

Faik added that the significant decline in passenger mobility also had a significant impact on the company's revenue.

"Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the AP I revenue continued to increase significantly from 2015. Because of this pandemic, revenue decreased quite significantly in 2020, in 2021, and started to improve slightly in 2022," he said.

In his presentation data, the company's revenue in 2019, or before the pandemic was recorded reached IDR 8.9 trillion, but immediately fell to IDR 3.9 trillion in 2020.

In 2021, the number will actually decrease to IDR 3.4 trillion but is expected to reach the RKAP 2022 target of IDR 4.9 trillion.

The projected revenue in 2022 is estimated to reach IDR 6.9 trillion following the recovery of the post-pandemic aviation industry.