Airport International Group (AIG) has announced continued growth in year-to-date passenger volume (PAX) and aircraft movement (ACM) for January 2013.
Passenger traffic reached 475,069 PAX, a 2.6% increase over the 463,228 PAX recorded during January last year. Meanwhile, ACM rose by over 3% to 5,269 ACM compared to January 2012's 5,115 ACM. Cargo traffic registered consistent performance at 6,831 tons, up by a marginal 0.03 tons compared to records for the same period in 2012.
Annual traffic had hit an all-time high at the end of 2012 when QAIA recorded a total of 6,250,048 PAX, a 14.3% increase over the annual total of 2011 and a difference of 782,322 passengers. While passenger traffic has well exceeded the airport's original capacity of 3.5 million annual passengers for the last four years, the rapidly approaching launch of the new terminal will immediately eliminate QAIA's current capacity constrictions, initially catapulting the airport capacity to more than 7 million passengers. When the existing terminal is demolished and the piers expanded, the capacity will be 9 million annual passengers, and later expansions of the piers will take capacity up to 12 million annual passengers.
Source: Airport International Group