Hubballi loses 3rd busiest airport tag to Belagavi in October

The Hubballi airport, which was the third busiest airport (in terms of number of passengers) in Karnataka after Bengaluru and Mangaluru in August and September, lost its place to Belagavi airport in the month of October.

In October, a total of 24,359 passengers used the Hubballi airport, travelling in 468 aircraft, while the Belagavi airport recorded a footfall of 27,262 passengers and the use of 522 aircraft. With this, the Belagavi airport overtook Hubballi as the state’s third busiest airport, despite Hubballi also witnessing an increase in passenger numbers and flights between September and October.

Air traffic data compiled by the Airports Authority of India (AAI) shows that while Hubballi was ahead of Belagavi in terms of flyer numbers in August and September,