KIA clocks over 18 million passengers in 2015

The Domestic passenger traffic has grown by 27.4 per cent as compared to the previous year while International passenger traffic grew at 15.8 per cent over last year.

A resurgent domestic aviation market saw new airlines and routes, resulting in a 12.7 per cent increase in Air Traffic Movements (ATMs) with an average of 404 ATMs per day. Domestic ATMs increased by 13.6 per cent and clocked a total of 1,25,481 movements in 2015 while international ATMs rose to 21,986, according to a release here. 

In the last financial year KIAB clocked 15 million passengers marking the airport?s graduation to the mid-sized airport category (15 to 25 million passenger airports) within seven years of commencing operations. 

BIAL Managing Director G V Sanjay Reddy said that "passenger traffic remained resilient in the face of global uncertainties and we were able to maintain the expected growth range forecast for the  year."

"We have grown not only in terms of traffic and airline partnerships, but also in our relentless focus on creating an international airport experience for our passengers. This is a testimony that KIAB is an airport of choice for domestic and international travelers, and that we are closer to our long-term goals of becoming a gateway to the Southern region."

The highlights of the year 2015 are KIAB clocked 63769 passengers on December 4-2015 making it as the highest single day traffic since the start of airport operations. Recorded highest Air Traffic Movement (ATM) on December 24-2015 with 457 ATMs. On average over 50,500 passengers transit through KIAB every day. The busiest Domestic routes from KIAB are Delhi, Mumbai and Pune, There has been an increase in international freighter connectivity to the Middle East.

KIAB has shown a substantial increase of 5.4 per cent of growth in 2015 to reach a total volume of 287,198 metric tonnes (MT) last year. In addition to the existing cold pharma zone operated by cargo partner Menzies Aviation Bobba Bangalore, BIAL's other cargo partner AISATS has commenced work on its Perishable Handling Center.  A dedicated drug testing lab for pharma shipments testing and clearance will also be part of perishable handling center.