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December, which is simply a highest play for travel, particularly among home commuters, saw a driblet of much than 1 lakh home passengers astatine Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) compared to the erstwhile period (November 2025) owing to the large-scale formation cancellation by IndiGo.
IndiGo’s formation services crossed India and Bengaluru were disrupted for galore days successful December 2025 owing to overstretching of its formation crew. Several home flights were besides cancelled.
Due to this, KIA handled 3,133,697 passengers successful December 2025 compared to 3,279,765 passengers successful November 2025, according to information from Airports Authority of India (AAI). The airdrome handled 1,46,068 little home passengers.
According to AAI information successful December 2024, the airdrome handled 3,160,515 home passengers. The quality successful rider numbers betwixt December 2025 and 2024 was -0.8%.
The fig of craft movements (domestic) successful December 2025 was 19,202, arsenic against 20,041 successful November 2025. The airdrome handled 839 less flights.
In December 2024, the home craft question stood astatine 19,890, and the quality successful craft question numbers betwixt December 2025 and 2024 was -3.5%.
During the IndiGo crisis, much than 100 flights were cancelled crossed respective days successful the Bengaluru assemblage and much than 150 flights were cancelled connected different days. December 6 saw the highest fig of cancellations astatine 175.
According to AAI information during 2025, the airdrome handled the highest fig of home passengers successful November (3,279,765) with 20,041 flights.
It handled the slightest fig of passengers successful February (2,80,9028) with 17,224 flights.
15‑year licence
Menzies Aviation has been awarded a 15-year licence to supply crushed handling services astatine KIA. The licence is effectual from April 1, 2026, with operations expected to commence instantly upon securing required regulatory approvals.
Under the caller licence, the institution volition supply a afloat suite of crushed handling services crossed Terminals 1 and 2, including passenger, ramp, and baggage operations, enabling hose customers to payment from integrated crushed and cargo services astatine the airport.
As portion of the agreement, Menzies volition motorboat a section recruitment programme, with astir 1,000 caller employees expected to articulation the concern during the archetypal 3 years, expanding its existing 1,700‑strong cargo team.
Menzies volition besides put much than $9.2 cardinal to modernise and standardise its crushed enactment instrumentality (GSE) astatine the airport, including the instauration of electrical GSE arsenic portion of its long‑term sustainability strategy.
