Trends in air traffic movement to and from Bengaluru remained upward as 2022 drew to a close and has almost hit pre-Covid numbers, an official report on traffic flow management in the country’s airports said.
The Central Air Traffic Flow Management (CATFM) said, in a post-ops analysis of the month of December 2022, that the Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) recorded 98 per cent of the average daily flight movement which was recorded in December 2019. KIA recorded the third highest average daily movement among the country’s six major airports, behind Delhi and Mumbai (figures in box).
The monthly CATFM analysis, the last before the airport in Bengaluru opened its second terminal, placed the airport on top in terms of ATM recovery over the past three years,