Singapore's Changi Airport logs healthy growth; India 7th

Singapore's Changi airport, considered to be one of the world's busiest airports, has logged a 2.6 per cent growth in 2015 with 55.4 million passengers using the airport last year and Indian fliers accounting for a little over six per cent in the overall growth.
The airport had managed 54.1 million passenger movements in 2014.
According to a release issued today, the passenger movement from India to the Changi airport increased to around 3.44 million in 2015 as compared to 3.41 million in 2014.
"Registering around 3.44 million Indian passenger movements, India remains Changi airport's seventh largest country market," the release said.

The release stated Mumbai was Changi's fourth fastest growing route with an 8.2 per cent year-on-year growth, among other destinations with at least half a million passengers handled from the city in 2015.
In December alone, India's financial capital saw close to 11 per cent increase in traffic, it said.

Bangkok, Colombo and Guangzhou in China took the top three spots, the release added.
"2015 was a year of two halves for Changi airport. Following 2014, which saw a number of airline incidents in the region and depressed yields for many regional carriers, we had a relatively weak first six months with flat growth for the period," Changi Airport Group Chief Executive Officer Lee Seow Hiang said.

"We have seen both full-service and low-cost carriers add capacity in recent months and this has resulted in stronger passenger growth of about 5 per cent for the second half of the year," he added.
Changi airport's links to India rose to 13 with the latest addition of a service to Lucknow, thus strengthening the airport's position as the most connected airport in Southeast Asia to India, the release said.
In terms of traffic, the top five Indian cities for the airport are Mumbai, Chennai, New Delhi, Bangalore and Tiruchirappalli.
Significantly, Changi airport has also been mandated to manage the terminal operations and parking at Ahmedabad and Jaipur airports. This is the first time that an international operator would be managing domestic airports.

"Closer to our hub, Asia continues to present exciting growth opportunities with untapped tourism potential in many parts of the continent and growing affluence in the emerging economies driving air travel. Here, Changi airport is well placed to capture future growth with our expanding network, including many secondary cities and to key markets like China, India and Indonesia," Seow added.