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Singapore Changi Airport dealt with 67.7 million passenger actions in 2024, registering a 14.8% year-on-year enhance. This was 99.1% of the passenger actions recorded in 2019, previous to the Covid-19 pandemic. Plane actions, totalled 366,000 in 2024, up 11.5% in comparison with 2023. A complete of 1.99 million tonnes of airfreight throughput was recorded within the yr, surpassing 2023’s degree by 14.6%.
Yam Kum Weng, Chief Govt Officer of Changi Airport Group, mentioned: “We witnessed a yr of robust development in passenger and cargo visitors in addition to connectivity in 2024. Changi added a bumper crop of 11 new metropolis hyperlinks, strengthening the air hub’s community and opening up a world of recent locations to assist enterprise ties and for travellers to discover. We’re deeply grateful for the shut partnership with our airline companions and are happy to welcome the brand new airways to Changi. Their collaboration has been instrumental in driving this development.
“Trying forward, we’re optimistic of one other yr of development in passenger visitors. Working a serious air hub in Asia-Pacific, Changi Airport Group will proceed to put money into our airport’s infrastructure, techniques and processes to enhance our dealing with capability, in order to be well-placed to assist the rising demand for air journey within the coming years.”
For the fourth quarter (This fall) of 2024, Changi Airport dealt with 17.8 million passenger actions. This was a ten.7% enhance in comparison with the identical interval in 2023, and marked a full visitors restoration in comparison with This fall of 2019. Plane actions, which embrace landings and take-offs, totalled 95,300, up 9.3% year-on-year. For the quarter, 521,000 tonnes in airfreight throughput was recorded, a rise of 15.0%.
December 2024, with 6.4 million passenger actions, was the busiest month within the yr, the primary time month-to-month visitors has exceeded six million since December 2019. The busiest day of the yr was 21 December 2024 – the Saturday earlier than Christmas – when 226,000 passengers handed by Changi’s terminals.
Whereas all areas witnessed development, North Asia was the quickest rising in 2024, registering a rise of 40% in comparison with 2023. Changi Airport’s high 5 passenger markets for the yr have been China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Australia and Thailand.
China was Changi’s largest supply market of the yr, with passenger visitors virtually doubling 2023’s degree and surpassing the pre-Covid degree by 6%. Hong Kong and Japan additionally recorded vital development of greater than 20% year-on-year.
Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok, Jakarta, Denpasar (Bali) and Hong Kong have been Changi Airport’s busiest routes in the course of the yr. Shanghai entered Changi’s high 10 cities record for the primary time since 2011, registering a 94% development in comparison with the earlier yr.
Enhancing connectivity
In 2024, Changi Airport welcomed eight new passenger airways – Aero Dili, AirAsia Cambodia, Air Canada, Air Japan, Loong Air, Peach Aviation, Tianjin Airways and West Air. As Changi expanded its connectivity to the world, it added 11 new passenger metropolis hyperlinks to its community, connecting Singapore to Broome, Brussels, Guiyang, Kertajati, Lhasa, Linyi, Malacca, Phu Quoc, Quanzhou, Vancouver, and Wenzhou.
Throughout the yr, Changi additionally established flights to London Gatwick Airport and Subang Airport, offering extra choices for travels to London and Kuala Lumpur. Extra thrilling new routes are already on the horizon, and travellers can look ahead to new locations together with Labuan Bajo from March, and Vienna from June this yr.
Changi Airport additionally welcomed two new freighter airways in 2024 – Shandong Airways, which additionally resumed passenger providers in the course of the yr, and Air Incheon. Two new freighter metropolis hyperlinks have been added, connecting Singapore to Haikou and Nagoya.
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