Changi Airport records busiest month in 2015

AUG 26, 2015: Singapore Changi Airport handled some 4.89 million passenger movements in July 2015, an uplift of 6.8 percent from last year, registering the highest year-on-year growth in monthly passenger traffic so far this year. In tandem, flight movements rose 4.3 percent to 29,400.

During the month, 147,500 tonnes of airfreight were processed at Changi, a 4.8 percent decrease on-year. The growth in passenger traffic was supported by traffic growth across most regions with all of Changi Airport’s top 10 country markets registering increases. These were Indonesia, Malaysia, China, Australia, Thailand, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Vietnam and the Philippines. Traffic to and from Korea however declined 7 percent during the month compared to a year ago. As at 1 August 2015, more than 100 airlines operate at Changi Airport, connecting Singapore to some 320 cities in about 80 countries and territories worldwide. With more than 6,600 weekly scheduled flights, an aircraft takes off or lands at Changi roughly once every 90 seconds.

Thai Lion Air (IATA: SL) launched a daily Bangkok-Don Mueang – Singapore service on 15 August. On 17 August, Myanmar National Airlines (IATA: UB) became the sixth operator for the Singapore – Yangon route, flying six times a week. From 22 July, Garuda Indonesia rerouted three of its six weekly Jakarta – Amsterdam services to a Jakarta – Singapore – Amsterdam – Jakarta circular routing.

Garuda is the third airline operating this sector, along with Singapore Airlines and KLM. Singapore Airlines has also increased the frequency for its Singapore – Sydney service from 28x to 31x weekly from 30 July.