The State News Agency Antara recorded 21.8 million domestic and international passengers during the period January-November 2024.
The general manager of Bali’s Ngurah Rai International Airport, Ahmad Syaugi Shahab, says that compared to the same period in 2023, the total passengers handled by Bali’s airport has increased 12.37% over the 19.4 passengers for the same period the year before.
Shahab attributes the growth in passenger numbers to the opening of many new routes operating to and from Bali. Looking back over the past 11 months, six new domestic flight routes have opened to the following destinations: Sorong, Lampung, Berau, Sumbawa, Palembang, and Pontianak.
Meanwhile, eight new international routes have been added to Bali in the past year to the following destinations: Bengaluru, Canberra, Abu Dhabi, Moscow, Kota Kinabalu, Phuket, Busan, and Shanghai.
With the new domestic and international destinations served by Bali’s Airport, there has been a corresponding increase in flight movements. During the January-November 2024 period, as compared to the same period in 2023, flight movements increased by 4% from 124,153 to 129,493.
For the subject period, international passengers constituted 59% or about 12.9 million, with the remaining 8.9 million domestic passengers.
Shahab predicts a spike in passenger numbers during December 2024 with the Christmas and New Year peak holiday travel period. Bali’s Airport projects 23.6 million passengers for the two months of December-January.
This projection is far above the normal average. July 2024 experienced the highest passenger numbers, totaling 2.1 million, higher than the usual monthly average of 1.9 million or 65,282 daily passengers.
Of the 21.8 million passengers passing through Ngurah Rai Airport During the first eleven months of 2024, 50% of all domestic passengers, or around 4.4 million passengers. The second most popular domestic destination is Surabaya, with 1.2 million passengers; in third place, with 476,000 passengers, is Makassar.
The most popular international route operating from Bali is Singapore, with 2.5 million passengers; Kuala Lumpur, with 1.5 million passengers; and Perth, with 975,000 passengers.
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