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The load factor is not bad. Yet still losing money?

 

Load factor can be 99% and still make a loss when yield is low...

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Load factor can be 99% and still make a loss when yield is low...

 

Means too much cost? I think passengers would be very upset and disappointed if an airlines offer great services but has gone into bankruptcy and liquidation due to this kind of reason... sad.

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Means too much cost? I think passengers would be very upset and disappointed if an airlines offer great services but has gone into bankruptcy and liquidation due to this kind of reason... sad.

 

IMHO it is rather, how much passengers are willing to pay for the service. Airlines like SIA and Emirates are profitable because premium pax pay high prices to get into First and Business classes. Just my 0.02 cents.

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Means too much cost? I think passengers would be very upset and disappointed if an airlines offer great services but has gone into bankruptcy and liquidation due to this kind of reason... sad.

 

If pax find the great service value for money, they will pay premium price and low yield won’t exist.

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AK, FD, QZ and SQ have uploaded their operating statistics for the month of May 2011, as follows:

 

http://www.airasia.com/iwov-resources/my/common/pdf/AirAsia/IR/Preliminary_Operating_Statistics_May11.pdf

http://www.singaporeair.com/pdf/Investor-Relations/Operating-Stats/opstats-may11.pdf

 

Here are the data being plugged into our charts:

 

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TableMay2011.png

 

Note: Data for MH is until April 2011 only, while for FY is until 31 March 2011 only.

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Tuesday July 19, 2011

AirAsia carries 7.35mil passengers in Q2

 

PETALING JAYA: The AirAsia Group, which includes its Malaysian, Thai and Indonesian operations, carried 7.35 million passengers for its second quarter ended June 30, up 20.9% from 6.08 million passengers a year ago.

 

Load factor for the quarter was 80%, up four percentage points (ppt) from 76% posted one year before.

 

In a statement on its preliminary operating statistic issued yesterday, the airline's passenger capacity, measured by available seat kilometres (ASK), was up 16.4% from 9.35 billion to 10.88 billion while revenue passenger kilometre (RPK) was 8.69 billion against 6.84 billion made a year ago.

 

For its Malaysian operations, the low-cost carrier handled 4.47 million passengers for the quarter, up 14.9% from 3.89 million passengers one year ago. The seat factor was 81%, up four ppt from 77%. The airline's passenger capacity went up by 8.3% from 5.94 billion to 6.44 billion while RPK was up 21.6% to 5.25 billion from 4.32 billion.

 

As for its Thai affiliate, its operations saw a total of 1.62 million passengers carried in the second quarter, up 30.4% from 1.24 million passengers while load factor grew 3 ppt to 78%. Thai AirAsia's ASK was 2.23 billion, up 25.6% from 1.78 billion while RPK was 1.77 billion against 1.30 billion posted a year ago.

 

Meanwhile, Indonesia AirAsia carried 1.26 million passengers against 947,786 passengers a year ago while load factor was up one ppt to 76%. Its operations recorded ASK of 2.21 billion from 1.62 billion a year ago while RPK was up 36.7% from 1.22 billion to 1.66 billion.

 

For its first quarter ended March 31, AirAsia saw its net profit decline 23% to RM171.93mil from RM224.11mil posted in the same quarter last year, mainly due to lower unrealised foreign exchange gains.

 

However, the airline recorded a revenue growth of 21% to RM1.05bil compared with RM870.61mil posted in the same quarter previously due to a 17% increase in passenger volume and higher ancillary income per passenger which rose year-on-year by 31% to RM50 from RM38.

 

The airline's operating profit margins were also higher yoy due to tighter control of costs. Operating profit for the first quarter was RM241.72mil against RM165.05mil a year ago.

 

http://biz.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2011/7/19/business/9125325&sec=business

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AirAsia X Carries 56 Per Cent More Passengers In Q2

 

KUALA LUMPUR, July 19 (Bernama) -- AirAsia X, the long haul affiliate of AirAsia, carried 620,000 passengers in the second quarter this year, an increase of 56 per cent over the number of passengers carried in the same quarter of 2010.

 

It recorded similar growth in the first quarter this year compared with the quarter before.

 

In a statement Tuesday, it said in terms of passenger traffic, AirAsia X grew by 66.6 per cent to RM3.5 billion Revenue-Passenger-Kms (RPKs) for the second quarter, achieving similar levels as the first quarter of 2011.

 

"Our continued growth points to a clear positive demand trajectory for 2011 compared to 2010, despite the challenge of higher and more volatile fuel prices which have led to higher air fares," AirAsia X Chief Executive Officer Azran Osman-Rani said.

 

He said the airline was confident of maintaining its growth in the second half of 2011, more so after having been granted route approvals from the government.

 

"We are now preparing to launch additional routes to further strengthen our network," he said.

 

AiirAsia X is currently operating with nine Airbus A330 and two Airbus A340, and running a route network to 15 destinations globally with its addition of services to Christchurch, New Zealand on April 1, 2011.

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Wow, it has been ages since I last updated the thread (and nobody else seems to bother cibs LOL).

 

To start kicking off the thread back, here is the list of the world's top 30 busiest airports by total passengers movement for the first 7 months of 2011 (as at 31 July 2011) as published by ACI:

 

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Some notes:

  • All airports in the top 30 list recorded good numbers and growth during the first 7 months of 2011, with the exception of Tokyo Haneda which was impacted by natural and nuclear disasters which, saw a decrement of 5.7% of its total passengers number and evidently pushing its ranking out of the top 5. Haneda has been consistently placed in the top 5 ranking since like ages.
  • 6 airports in the top 30 list maintained a double digit growth throughout 7 months in 2011. The pack is led by Suvarnabhumi (16.1%), Ataturk (14.0%), our very own KLIA (13.3%), FJ Strauss (12.3%), Schiphol (12%) and archrival Changi (11.2%).
  • ASEAN region have 3 representatives in the top 30 list - Suvarnabhumi (15th), Changi (17th) and KLIA (25th). The absence of Soekarno-Hatta is somewhat puzzling but I guess PT Angkasapura did not submitted its numbers to ACI anymore. Based on the list, Suvarnabhumi is South East Asia's busiest airport. Based on our last data in February 2011, Suvarnabhumi is ahead of Soekarno-Hatta by 1,316,611 passengers (versus 551,262 passengers in January) so we can conclude that Soekarno-Hatta is still behind Suvarnabhumi as of current.
  • KLIA handled 21,835,211 passengers for the year to date until 31 July 2011, and is at ranking no. 25 in the world. KLIA is also currently the airport with the third highest growth (of 13.3%) among the airports in the top 30 list.
  • The margin between KLIA and Changi as at 31 July 2011 stood up at 4,740,521 passengers (versus 1,395,102 passengers as at 28 February 2011 and 7,951,141 passengers throughout the whole year of 2010).

MAHB is predicting KLIA to handle some 37 million passengers in 2011.

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SEPANG, Jan 12 (Bernama) -- Passenger traffic at Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) is set to post a six per cent increase this year, Minister of Transport Datuk Seri Kong Cho Ha said today.

 

He said KLIA 's passenger traffic was 34.1 million in 2010 and rose to 37.7 million last year, a 10.6 per cent increase.

 

"We conservatively forecast passenger traffic at KLIA to increase by about six per cent, however we predict the actual increase would be slightly more.

 

"For last year, we predicted a seven per cent increase, but we got more than 10 per cent," he told reporters at KLIA here Thursday.

 

Kong added that KLIA's rising passenger traffic clearly indicates its importance in the aviation industry.

 

Based on the industry trends observed in past years, he said Malaysia Airports Holdings Bhd (MAHB) aims to post a five to six per cent increase in passenger traffic in Malaysia this year.

 

Earlier, Kong attended the official welcoming ceremony for Emirates Airline's Airbus A380 aircraft at the KLIA. Also present were Emirates Senior Vice President, Commercial Operations Far East and Australasia Richard Jewsbury and MAHB managing director Tan Sri Bashir Ahmad.

 

Although the first Emirates A380 landed in Malaysia on New Year's Day, the official welcoming ceremony took place today with the flight given the traditional water canon salute upon arrival.

 

Meanwhile, Jewsbury said Emirates are proud to play a part in the latest milestone in Malaysia's aviation history.

 

"Emirates would also like to convey its special appreciation to the government of Malaysia and MAHB for their tremendous support and partnership that has made the start of the airline's scheduled Airbus A380 service between Dubai and Kuala Lumpur such as success.

 

"Our partnership with Malaysia goes back to October 1996 when we launched our first flight and here we are today with 21 weekly non-stop flights between Kuala Lumpur and Dubai, plus the daily onward flight to Melbourne.

 

"The decision to operate one of the non-strop services with the A380 follows strong and increasing demand for flights, not just from business travellers, but leisure travelers as well," he said.

 

Emirates' fleet of 20 A380s currently operate from Dubai to London, Sydney, Auckland, Bangkok, Toronto, Paris, Seoul, Jeddah, Beijing, Manchester, Hong Kong, New York, Shanghai, Munich, Rome and Johannesburg.

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SINGAPORE, 20 January 2012 – Singapore Changi Airport registered a strong

performance last month to achieve new records for passenger traffic and aircraft

movements in 2011. Celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2011, Changi Airport managed

46.5 million passenger movements and 302,000 aircraft movements during the year, an

increase of 10.7% and 14.5% respectively. Airfreight movements recovered to 2008

levels with 1.87 million tonnes of cargo handled, up 2.8% from 2010.

 

December 2011 was Changi Airport’s busiest month ever with 4.53 million passenger

movements, 11.4% more than a year ago. Changi’s daily record was also broken on 17

December 2011 with 165,000 passengers passing through during the 24 hours,

surpassing the previous record of 148,000 passengers on 19 June 2011.

 

There were 27,700 aircraft movements last month, an increase of 16.0% compared to

December 2010. As at 1 January 2012, Changi Airport handles more than 6,300

scheduled flights each week, an increase of 16.7% from a year ago. More than 100

airlines now connect Singapore to 210 cities in 60 countries globally.

 

Full PR:

http://www.changiairportgroup.com/export/sites/caas/assets/media_release_2012/20_Jan_2012.pdf

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Ok now we knew KLIA handled 37.7 million passengers in 2011 and Changi handled 46,543,845 passengers during the same period. Both numbers were record breaking for both airports throughout the existence of both countries since the beginning of human's civilization. KLIA's growth in 2011 was 10.6% while Changi's was 10.7%.

 

But how about other airports? Will KLIA remains in the top 30 list as at 31 December 2011? Who's no. 1 for South East Asia - Suvarnabhumi or Soekarno Hatta?

 

We do not have the final numbers yet but as per ACI's latest release of passengers' movements up until 31 October 2011:

 

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KLIA is still in top 30, currently at no. 29 in the world. Soekarno Hatta looks set to maintain its reign as South East Asia's busiest airport for the second year in a row ahead of Suvarnabhumi. As at 31 October 2011, Soekarno Hatta is 1,051,168 passengers ahead of Suvarnabhumi.

 

It is still quite a long way for KLIA to narrow its gap with Changi. The margin in 2011 widened to 8.8 million passengers (up from 7,951,141 passengers in 2010) despite KLIA growing by more than 10% (as Changi also grew by more than 10%, even higher than KLIA's.).

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AirAsia (AK+FD+QZ excluding D7) carried 29.86 million passengers throughout the year 2011.

 

 

 

AirAsia passenger traffic up 12.3pc in Q4

 

KUALA LUMPUR: AirAsia Bhd announced that it flew 7.91 million passengers in the fourth quarter of its financial year ended December 31 2011, a 12.3 per cent increase over the 7.06 million passengers in the corresponding quarter in 2010.

 

 

 

In its preliminary operating statistics released here yesterday, the leading low-cost carrier said of the passengers carried in the fourth quarter, 4.86 million were from Malaysia (2010: 4.44 million), 1.82 million from Thailand (2010: 1.62 million) and 1.26 million from Indonesia (2010: 1.0 million).

 

In 2011, the group recorded a total of 29.860 million passengers, up from the previous year's 25.681 million.

 

AirAsia's capacity jumped 13.5 per cent to 37.51 million from 33.06 million, and load factor increased by two per cent to 80 per cent from 78 per cent previously.

AirAsia also said available seat kilometres rose 13.5 per cent from 38,704 million to 43,940 million, while revenue passenger kilometres surged 18.5 per cent to 35,091 million from 29,613 million in the same period of 2010.

 

In another development, its associate AirAsia X said in a statement yesterday that it will increase its flight frequency to Haneda, Japan, from the current three flights weekly to six effective March 23.

 

AirAsia X also said that from June 22, it will operate daily flights from the Low Cost Carrier Terminal to Tokyo.

 

"The increase in flights is in response to the growing demand for the sector. With our wide network and strong brand affinity in Japan, we remain focused on growing our existing core markets.

 

"We are geared up to capitalise on the continuous increase in demand," said its chief executive officer Azran Osman-Rani.

 

The airline also flies four times weekly to Osaka. Bernama

 

 

 

 

Also some details on how our airports are faring in 2011.

 

2011 airports' passenger traffic up 10.6pc

Published: 2012/01/30

http://www.btimes.com.my/Current_New...#ixzz1kwVjusN2

 

PUTRAJAYA: Passenger traffic at the country's airports last year rose 10.63 per cent to 65.343 million passengers, from 59.065 million passengers in 2010.

 

Transport Minister Datuk Seri Kong Cho Ha said the increase was the second consecutive double-digit annual growth, with the 2010 figure 12 per cent over that of 2009.

 

He said the country's security and stability contributed to last year's good performance, which surpassed the ministry's target of 62 millionpassengers.

 

The growth was also encouraging as it came amid economic uncertainty in Europe and the United States in the last few years, he said.

 

"It shows the country was growing quite well and on the right track," he told reporters at his office here today.

 

Kong said the ministry targets passenger traffic to grow only five per cent this year amid the global economic uncertainty, especially in Europe and America.

 

He said last year, international passenger traffic grew 10.03 per cent to 30.89 million passengers, from 28.007 million in 2010, while domestic passenger traffic rose 10.9 per cent to 34.454 million, from 31.056 million.

 

Last year the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) handled 37.700 million passengers, followed by the airports of Kota Kinabalu (5.809 million), Penang (4.6 million) and Kuching (4.287 million).

 

Other airports handling over a million passengers were Miri (1.857 million), Langkawi (1.504 million), Johor Baharu (1.338 million), Sibu (1.133 million), Kota Baharu (1.132 million) and Subang (1.320 million).

 

On PJ Utara MP Tony Pua's allegation in a news portal today that the construction cost of the West Coast Expressway had escalated from its original estimate of RM3.015 billion, Kong said the project was planned a long time ago.

 

Kong said the expressway was long overdue and it was very important to implement the project immediately in order to stimulate the economies of the states involved, adding if it was not implemented now, the cost would escalate further in future. - Bernama

 

Wow, BKI almost hit 6 million mark! PEN once again prevails against KCH but not before KCH surpassing 4 million marks for the first time in history! MYY is set to enter the 2 million mark soon! Exciting times indeed!!! For our usual thorough analysis, we shall wait for MAHB annual detailed statistics when their 2011 Annual Report is released by mid year.

 

In the meantime, here is a recap of the ranking of our local airports in 2010.

 

MAHB has released its much awaited Annual Report 2010 and here are some of the highlight statistics:

 

Overall

 

The ranking of Malaysia's busiest airport in 2010 by passengers traffic (for airports that handled more than 1 million passengers only) [except JHB which is privately owned]:

 

1. KUL - 34,087,636 (+14.8%)

2. BKI - 5,223,454 (+7.3%)

3. PEN - 4,166,969 (+25.3%)

4. KCH - 3,684,517 (+3.1%)

5. MYY - 1,694,915 (+4.6%)

6. LGK - 1,374,729 (+1.1%)

7. SZB - 1,118,309 (+36.4%)

8. KBR - 1,047,755 (+4.4%)

9. SBW - 1,009,002 (+7.4%)

 

- As we all know, KUL recorded its best ever passengers traffic in 2010 and is now in world ranking no. 32.

- BKI continues its run as Malaysia's 2nd busiest airport and surpassed the 5 million passengers mark for the first time in history.

- As reported before, PEN recorded a huge growth in 2010 which helped it to snatch back the title of Malaysia's 3rd busiest airport from KCH.

- The rivalry between PEN and KCH is nothing short of epic. PEN is/was Malaysia's 3rd busiest airport in 2010 and 2008, while KCH was Malaysia's 3rd busiest airport in 2009, 2007 and prior.

- The other airports that handled more than 1 million passengers from the 2009's list continue their growths despite at a rather small rate (1 - 4%).

- Two airports break into the 1 million club in 2010 - SZB (a reentry since its heyday before its closure as Malaysia's primary gateway) and SBW which enters the list for the first time in history.

- Together with JHB (which I suspect should be in ranking no. 5 between KCH and MYY), Malaysia now has 10 airports that handle more than 1 million passengers annually. Huge achievement!

 

However, there is no airport that is expected to join the 1 million club in 2011. The next airport in the ranking is TWU which only recorded a growth of 3.6% to 897,848 passengers in 2010.

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ACI has released the ranking for Top 30 World's Busiest Airport for January 2012. Last year, KLIA managed to secure a place in Top 30. This year might be a tough year for KLIA after MH and D7 dropped several routes after a share-swap and some airlines pulled out from KUL. But, there's still hope to maintain top 30 because there are some routes frequencies and capacities had been increased such as LAX, VTE, PEK, TPE, MNL, HKG and etc. And there are some new entrants such as Bangkok Airways, Mandala and Airphil.

 

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  • 2012 is the trickiest year for all airlines operation after a hike in fuel price, EU financial crisis and unstable USD currency causing all airlines around the world to take drastic measure and scalling back their operation to make sure they were stay in profitability. Despite all these events occurred, Asia Pacific region still enjoy their economic booming and air travel growth.
  • In Top 30, most of the airports recorded a growth except for 5 airports recorded a negative growth mostly in US (Denver, Phoenix and Houston) 1 in Europe (Madrid) and 1 in Asia (Haneda).
  • 8 airports recorded a double digit growth ie Jakarta (17.3) Hong Kong (15.2) Guangzhou (15.1) Delhi (14.5) Shanghai Pudong (13.9) Suvarnabumi (12.9) Changi (12.1) and San Francisco (11.4).
  • The breakdown of airport by region: 12 airports from America, 11 from Asia, 5 from Europe, 1 from Ocenia and South America.
  • ASEAN still have 4 representative led by Suvarnabumi (4), Jakarta (9), Changi (12) and KLIA (21).
  • The margin between ASEAN aiports: Suvarnabumi <451,075> Jakarta <299,185> Changi <1,000,232> KLIA.
  • KLIA recorded 8.7 growth in January which handled 3,244,602. If KLIA continues to maintain its growth, we might see KLIA breaks into 40 millions mark by the end of this year.

Credit to Azizul for standard writing scheme :good:

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Thank you, just a standard everyday business English writing format I suppose. I have not had the time to monitor the figures as closely as before due to my current schedule. Great to see someone coming up with the effort to pluck in the numbers into the template. Well done Rahimi!

 

However, for completeness purpose, this is the final numbers for the passengers movement at the world's top 30 busiest airports for the full year of 2011, as released by ACI:

 

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  • KLIA ended its 2011's race with a bang, finishing at no. 27 in the world. KLIA is now the world's 27th busiest airport, our best ranking ever and the first time we made it into the top 30 list! In 2010, KLIA was ranked 32nd. So we are up 5 placings with a growth rate of 10.5%.
  • Based on MAHB's official figure, KLIA handled 37,704,510 passengers in 2011, compared to 34,087,636 passengers recorded in 2010, an increase of 3,616,874 passengers.
  • Throughout the year 2011, KLIA had the 5th highest growth (of 10.5%) amongst the top 30 busiest airports in the world, behind Soekarno Hatta (19.3%), Ataturk (16.3%), Suvarnabhumi (12.0%) and Changi (10.7%). The only other airports in the top 30 that recorded a double digit growth is Schiphol (10.1%). Out of the 6 airports that recorded a double digit growth, a staggering 4 airports come from the ASEAN region, which is absolutely overwhelming as it signifies how important our small region is to the global aviation scene.
  • ASEAN region now has 4 airports in top 30 list - Soekarno Hatta (12th), Suvarnabhumi (16th), Changi (18th) and KLIA (27th).
  • Soekarno Hatta maintains its title as the busiest airport in the ASEAN region for the 2nd consecutive year handling 44 million passengers in 2011. With its extremely high growth rate (of close to 20% since 2009 without fail), our neighbouring airport is expected to break into the top 10 list this year.
  • The margin between KLIA and Changi further worsening from 7,951,141 passengers in 2010 to 8,873,259 passengers in 2011.
  • Airports that recorded massive growth in the past - Beijing Capital, Dubai and Shanghai Pudong - only recorded a single digit growth in 2011.
  • Atlanta Hartsfield continued its reign as the busiest airport in the world handling more than 92 million passengers in 2011. This is followed by Beijing Capital with 77 million passengers but Beijing's growth rate has stated to marginalize which might indicate that it may continues to be in the no. 2 ranking for many years to come.
  • In general, 2011 was a worse year for most airports with 4 airports in the top 30 recorded a decline in passengers movement as opposed to only 2 airports in 2010. The airport that was hit the worst is Tokyo Haneda, whose number dropped by 2.9% following the tsunami and the accompanying nuclear plant incident in Fukushima back in March 2011.

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  • 8 airports recorded a double digit growth ie Jakarta (17.3) Hong Kong (15.2) Guangzhou (15.1) Delhi (14.5) Shanghai Pudong (13.9) Suvarnabumi (12.9) Changi (12.1) and San Francisco (11.4).
  • KLIA recorded 8.7 growth in January which handled 3,244,602. If KLIA continues to maintain its growth, we might see KLIA breaks into 40 millions mark by the end of this year.

 

Also worth noting that Chinese New Year was in January this year - hence most Asian airports recorded double digit growth compared to that of 2011. So let's hope this is not a one time growth but rather a continued and sustained growth. :)

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KLIA's passengers traffic in February 2012:

 

Total monthly passengers' traffic = 2,912,931 (841,355 Domestic + 2,071,576 International)

Monthly growth rate from previous corresponding period: +4.1%

 

February 2012 Traffic Report

 

February passenger volume for MAHB operated airports registered a growth of 2.3% in comparison with February 2011. International passenger movements grew by 3.4% while domestic passenger movements recorded 1.2% increase. One of the main reasons for the low February growth was due to the shift of Chinese New Year festival date which moved to January in 2012. This resulted in a high base in 2011 and lower number in 2012. KLIA’s passenger traffic recorded an increase of 4.1% with a 4.7% growth of international traffic. The largest growth in international passengers at KLIA was recorded by foreign carriers which year-on-year grew by 14.0%.

 

Cargo movements registered first double digit year-on-year growth of 10.4% since August 2010. Cargo used to be an indicator of better future passenger growth but this analogy has not been holding on lately. Total aircraft movements at MAHB airports increased by 3.6%. International and domestic aircraft increased by 4.7% and 3.0% respectively.

 

 

Total passengers' traffic YTD 2012 until 29 February 2011 = 6,157,533 (1,799,743 Domestic + 4,357,790 International)

YTD growth rate from previous corresponding period: +6.5%

 

Expected full year 2012 passengers traffic for KLIA based on latest average YTD growth rate = 37,670,586 x 1.065 = 40,119,174 passengers

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