Coimbatore airport registers 11% rise in passenger traffic in six months

Coimbatore International Airport registered 11% summation successful rider traffic, with a footfall of 17.6 lakh flyers, successful the six months from April to September successful the existent fiscal twelvemonth arsenic per information from the Airport Authority of India (AAI).

The airport’s rider footfall had crossed 30 lakh successful 2024 arsenic against the capableness of 20 lakh passengers.

The airdrome presently has much than 30 departures per time to destinations specified arsenic Singapore (1), Abu Dhabi (1-four days per week), Sharjah (1-five days per week), Chennai (8), Hyderabad (5), Mumbai (4), Delhi (4), Bangalore (4), Pune (1), Goa (1) and Ahmedabad (1-four days per week).

Kongu Global Forum (KGF), an relation of industrial, concern and commercialized leaders from Tamil Nadu’s occidental districts, wanted an interim program to summation the airport’s capableness to grip much flights and passengers. It besides wanted airlines to motorboat flights to Colombo, Bangkok, Dubai and Doha planetary assemblage and further flights to Delhi, Pune, Chennai and Goa.

Airport Director G. Sambath Kumar said that the operation of the compound partition astir the onshore handed implicit by the State authorities to AAI is expected to beryllium completed by September 2026.  The full magnitude of the projected partition is astir 16 km.