Mangaluru: Mangaluru International Airport handled a record 7,399 passengers on November 19 on 26 arriving and 25 departing flights.
This includes 3,527 arriving and 3,872 departing passengers, respectively.
This is the highest-ever daily passenger that the airport has handled from the commercial operation date (COD) of October 31, 2020. This is also the first time that the airport has breached the 7000-passenger daily handling mark since November 2021.
The load factor that the airline – IndiGo, Air India and Air India Express recorded on November 19 too tell their own story. While the load factor on arriving flights – domestic and international was 79 per cent, this increased to 91 per cent on the departing flights.