Mumbai airport passenger traffic grows by 21% in 2021, shows data

The city’s Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport (CSMIA) handled 21 per cent more passengers at 19.8 million in 2021 compared to the previous year, led by domestic passenger volume, which accounted for 88 per cent of the overall traffic, the private airport operator said on Monday.

This was driven by the recovery in domestic air travel, with the second half of 2021 seeing a whopping 117 per cent jump in passenger volume at around 10.9 million passengers as against around 5-million passengers in H2CY2020, it said.

The airport had handled a total of 16.3 million passengers in CY 2020, as per the CSMIA.

Of the 19.8 million passengers, the airport catered to approximately 17.4 million domestic passengers across 1,40,000 flights and over 2.43 million international passengers across 17,290 flights, it said.