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The Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) handled 32.4 cardinal passengers successful the archetypal 9 months of 2025.
“KIA is the busiest airdrome successful South India, and the 3rd largest successful the country. The airdrome handled home rider postulation of 27.3 cardinal and planetary rider postulation of 5.1 cardinal successful the archetypal 9 months of 2025, representing twelvemonth implicit twelvemonth maturation of 5% and 30.1%, respectively,” Fairfax India Holdings Corporation said successful the interim study for the 9 months ended September 30, 2025.
New routes
It attributed the maturation to motorboat of caller routes and commencement of caller planetary airlines from the KIA.
“This maturation has been supported by accrued capableness from large home and planetary carriers, the motorboat of caller routes, and the commencement of operations by caller planetary airlines,” it said.
On the airport’s existent enlargement program it said that determination are plans to see caller airdrome metro stations, upgrades to existing terminals, further airplane taxiways, and caller tunnels, connectors and walkways.
“The Bangalore International Airport Limited’s (BIAL) plans to summation the wide capableness of the airdrome besides stay nether way, and see the operation of the 2nd signifier of Terminal 2 by fiscal twelvemonth 2029 and a 3rd terminal by fiscal twelvemonth 2034. The combined capableness of the existing terminal, Terminal 2, and Terminal 3 is expected to beryllium beyond 90 cardinal passengers per annum,” it said.
The Fairfax India Holdings Corporation holds a bulk involvement successful the BIAL which operates the KIA.
The BIAL, nether a concession statement with the Union authorities until the twelvemonth 2068, has the exclusive rights to transportation retired the development, design, financing, construction, commissioning, maintenance, operation, and absorption of KIA done a public-private partnership.
