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Bangalore International Airport Ltd’s (BIAL) Kempegowda International Airport Bengaluru (BLR Airport) has posted impressive traffic growth by clocking 22.18 million passengers, marking overall traffic growth of 22.5 per cent.
Air Traffic Movements (ATMs) witnessed an increase of 19.9 per cent, with the airport connecting 45 airlines to 66 destinations in India and globally.
On an average 60,000 passengers travel through the airport everyday. The year also saw the achievement of many new milestones. The airport saw two million passengers travelling in November 2016 and an all-time monthly high of 2.15 million passengers in December 2016, the single highest traffic month for any airport in South India. Earlier in the year, BLR Airport also reached the landmark milestone of welcoming its 100 millionth passenger in 2016.
G. V. Sanjay Reddy, Managing Director, BIAL said: “2016 saw another strong year for us at BLR Airport. Despite the many challenges we have grown exponentially in terms of passenger traffic. Our cargo business has also seen incremental growth, which reaffirms our growth strategy to develop our airport as the cargo hub of South India.”
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