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Singapore Changi Airport handled 3.77 million passenger movements in May 2011, an 11.3% increase compared to May 2010. Aircraft movements during the month totalled 24,994, a 12.8% increase year-on-year, and an alltime monthly record for Changi Airport.
Southeast Asia traffic registered the strongest year-on-year growth of 17.7%, followed by traffic to Southwest Pacific (14.4%). Traffic to Northeast Asia grew 6.8% despite declines of 11.4% and 9.2% for passenger movements between Singapore and Tokyo and Japan respectively. Low cost carriers (LCCs) continued to expand rapidly during the month. Passenger traffic on LCCs grew 24.6% compared to a year ago and accounted for 28% of Changi’s total.
Full service carriers grew 7.3% in terms of passenger movements. During the month, Changi Airport welcomed the commencement of Finnair’s daily service connecting Helsinki to Singapore. Garuda Indonesia also launched a daily service on 1 June linking Singapore to Makassar, the largest city on Sulawesi Island. The addition of Helsinki and Makassar brings to seven1 the number of new city links connected to Changi this year. On the cargo front, airfreight movements in May totalled 157,286 tonnes, an increase of 2.7%. For the Jan-May period, cargo movements were up 3.5% to 754,517 tonnes.
As at 1 June 2011, Changi Airport serves 100 airlines operating over 5,700 weekly scheduled flights to more than 200 cities in some 60 countries and territories. Changi Airport’s traffic statistics are available at Air Partner celebrates 50 years of business.
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