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Three of the six tier-II airports successful Karnataka handled much passengers successful the archetypal 7 months of 2025 compared to the aforesaid play past year. These are Mangaluru, Hubballi and Shivamogga airports.
As per Airport Authority of India (AAI) information betwixt January and July 2025, Mangaluru reported question of 14.37 lakh passengers (both home and international) portion Hubballi and Shivamogga airports, which run lone home flights, handled 2.12 lakh and 94,291 passengers, respectively.
During the aforesaid play successful 2024, Mangaluru catered to 12.64 lakh passengers portion Hubballi and Shivamogga airports handled 1.80 lakh and 47,494 passengers, respectively.
While Mangaluru recorded a maturation of 13.6% successful 2025 compared to the erstwhile year, Hubballi and Shivamogga airports recorded a maturation of 17.8% and 98.5%, respectively.
Dip successful footfall
The AAI information besides showed that 3 airports Belagavi, Kalaburagi and Mysuru catered to lesser passengers successful 2025 compared to 2024.
In 2025, Belagavi airdrome handled 1.81 lakh passengers compared to 2.10 lakh passengers successful 2024 which translates into a 13. 8% alteration successful rider traffic.
In 2025, Kalaburagi airdrome handled 13,170 passengers compared to 28,670 passengers successful 2024 which translates into a 54% alteration successful rider traffic.
Bidar airport, which stopped commercialized formation operations, resumed formation services successful April 2025. The airdrome handled 8,511 passengers till July.
The Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) successful Bengaluru, the busiest airdrome successful Karnataka, handled 25.53 cardinal passengers successful 2025 against 23.83 cardinal passengers successful 2024 which translates into a 9.9 % growth.
HAL airport
The HAL airdrome successful Bengaluru, which operates charter and VIP flights, handled 10,509 passengers arsenic against 10,188 passengers successful 2024 reporting a marginal maturation of 3.1%.
The HAL airdrome served arsenic Bengaluru’s superior airdrome for decades until it ceased commercialized formation operations successful 2008, pursuing the opening of the KIA astatine Devanahalli.
