Singapore’s Changi Airport Group, Asia’s fifth busiest measured by number of passengers, said on Monday the number of passengers in July rose 15.9% from a year ago to 3.67 million. The airport, a major hub in Asia, also said it handled 11.8% more cargo in July from a year earlier.
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The airport also recorded an 18.8% rise in the passenger movement in the same month, its third consecutive double digit growth in passenger traffic.
Passenger traffic at Singapore’s Changi Airport, Southeast Asia’s biggest, rose for the fourth consecutive month in November as airlines increased flights to cities around the region.
Changi handled 3.37 million passengers last month, up 9.2% from 3.08 million in November 2008.
Singapore’s Changi Airport handled 3.36 million passengers in November, 9.2% more than the year before, it said in a statement e-mailed statement today. The airport received 33.4 million passengers between January and November, 2.4% less than the same period a year earlier, it said.
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Singapore’s Changi Airport Group said passenger and flight traffic rose in September, while cargo traffic fell, the local press reported.
Almost 3.1 million passengers passed through the airport last month, 6% more than a year earlier, the second straight month of gains after nine months of declines, according to local press reports, citing the group.
The number of flights taking off and landing rose 5.8% to 20,115.
Cargo traffic fell 13% to 140,790 tons.
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