Airport traffic 2007

[Izanee 0]

From business times online:

 

 

Passenger movements at KLIA up 7.7pc in Jan

Published: 2008/03/03

 

 

 

PASSENGER movements at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) rose by 7.7 per cent to 2.17 million in January 2008 from 2.02 million in the same period last year.

 

In a statement yesterday, Malaysia Airports Holdings Bhd (MAHB) said of the total, 1.46 million were international passengers while 708,947 were domestic passengers.

 

Passenger movements at other airports operated by MAHB also saw an increase, to 1.53 million in January 2008 from 1.36 million previously.

 

On cargo movements at the KLIA, MAHB said it rose by 21.7 per cent to 55.09 million kilograms from 45.25 million kilograms previously.

 

For the other airports, cargo movements, however, fell by 5.3 per cent to 26.21 million kilograms from 27.68 million kilograms previously, it said.

 

MAHB said that aircraft movements at the KLIA went up by 8.3 per cent to 17,067 in January 2008 from 15,763 in the same month last year.

 

For the other airports, aircraft movements also rose to 22.997 compared with 21,196 previously. — Bernama

 

[Mohd Azizul Ramli 2]

The PRELIMINARY 2007 Annual Airports Traffic Report is out. This one should reflect the FINAL one almost 100%. Figures are for period from January until December 2007.

 

From Airports Council International as at 12 March 2008.

 

Total Passenger Traffic:

(Airport-Total Passenger-%Change)

1. ATLANTA (ATL) - 89 379 287 - 5.3

2. CHICAGO (ORD) - 76 159 324 - (0.2)

3. LONDON (LHR) - 68 068 554 - 0.8

4. TOKYO (HND) - 66 671 435 - 1.3

5. LOS ANGELES (LAX) - 61 895 548 - 1.4

6. PARIS (CDG) - 59 919 383 - 5.4

7. DALLAS/FT WORTH (DFW) - 59 784 876 - (0.7)

8. FRANKFURT (FRA) - 54 161 856 - 2.6

9. BEIJING (PEK) - 53 736 923 - 9.4

10. MADRID (MAD) - 52 122 214 - 14.0

 

Selected Asian Airports:

15. HONG KONG (HKG) - 46 995 000 - 7.2

18. BANGKOK (BKK) - 41 210 081 - (3.7)

19. SINGAPORE (SIN) - 36 701 556 - 4.8

24. TOKYO (NRT) - 35 530 035 - 1.6

27. DUBAI (DXB) - 34 348 110 - 19.3

 

Notes: KUL is not listed in the top 30.

 

 

Total Cargo Traffic:

(Airport-Metric Tonne-%Change)

1. MEMPHIS (MEM) - 3 840 574 - 4.0

2. HONG KONG (HKG) - 3 772 673 - 4.5

3. ANCHORAGE (ANC) - 2 826 499 - 0.6

4. SEOUL (ICN) - 2 555 582 - 9.4

5. SHANGHAI (PVG) - 2 494 808 - 15.5

6. TOKYO (NRT) - 2 252 654 - (1.2)

7. FRANKFURT (FRA) - 2 169 025 - 1.9

8. LOUISVILLE (SDF) - 2 078 290 - 4.8

9. PARIS (CDG) - 2 005 160 - 6.4

10. MIAMI (MIA) - 1 922 982 - 5.0

 

Selected Asian Airports:

11. SINGAPORE (SIN) - 1 918 159 - (0.7)

13. DUBAI (DXB) - 1 668 506 - 11.0

15. TAIPEI (TPE) - 1 605 681 - (5.5)

19. BANGKOK (BKK) - 1 220 001 - 3.2

20. BEIJING (PEK) - 1 191 048 - 15.8

24. TOKYO (HND) - 851 551 - 1.7

25. OSAKA (KIX) - 845 996 - 0.5

30. GUANGZHOU (CAN) - 694 923 - 6.4

 

Notes: KUL is not listed in the top 30. This is actually quite disappointing because in 2006, KUL was in the 30th place with 677,446 metric tonne of cargo handled.

 

 

Total Aircraft Movement:

(Airport-Aircraft-%Change)

1. ATLANTA (ATL) - 994 346 - 1.8

2. CHICAGO (ORD) - 927 834 - (3.1)

3. DALLAS/FT WORTH (DFW) - 684 779 - (2.0)

4. LOS ANGELES (LAX) - 681 445 - 3.7

5. DENVER (DEN) - 614 169 - 2.8

6. LAS VEGAS (LAS) - 609 472 - (1.6)

7. HOUSTON (IAH) - 603 836 - 0.2

8. PARIS (CDG) - 552 721 - 2.1

9. PHOENIX (PHX) - 538 063 - (1.5)

10. CHARLOTTE (CLT) - 522 541 - 2.5

 

Selected Asian Airports:

23. BEIJING (PEK) - 399 986 - 6.3

 

Notes: KUL is not listed in the top 30.

 

 

Total INTERNATIONAL Passenger Traffic:

(Airport-Total Passenger-%Change)

1. LONDON (LHR) - 62 099 530 - 1.2

2. PARIS (CDG) - 54 901 564 - 5.8

3. AMSTERDAM (AMS) - 47 677 570 - 3.7

4. FRANKFURT (FRA) - 47 087 699 - 3.0

5. HONG KONG (HKG) - 46 281 000 - 6.9

6. SINGAPORE (SIN) - 35 221 203 - 5.6

7. TOKYO (NRT) - 34 289 064 - 1.3

8. DUBAI (DXB) - 33 481 257 - 19.9

9. BANGKOK (BKK) - 31 632 716 - 6.9

10. LONDON (LGW) - 31 139 116 - 3.7

 

Selected Asian Airports:

11. SEOUL (ICN) - 30 753 225 - 11.2

17. TAIPEI (TPE) - 20 855 186 - 2.8

27. SHANGHAI (PVG) - 17 518 790 - 9.0

29. KUALA LUMPUR (KUL) - 17 067 151 - 13.0

 

Notes: KUL is world's 29th busiest airport in term of international passengers traffic in the year 2007. In 2006, KUL was 30th. A good improvement.

 

 

Total INTERNATIONAL Cargo Traffic:

(Airport-Metric Tonne-%Change)

1. HONG KONG (HKG) - 3 743 000 - 4.5

2. SEOUL (ICN) - 2 523 678 - 9.4

3. TOKYO (NRT) - 2 211 826 - (1.1)

4. SHANGHAI (PVG) - 2 132 691 - 17.2

5. FRANKFURT (FRA) - 2 030 253 - 1.7

6. SINGAPORE (SIN) - 1 894 766 - (0.9)

7. ANCHORAGE (ANC) - 1 661 109 - (21.0)

8. MIAMI (MIA) - 1 610 893 - 5.9

9. AMSTERDAM (AMS) - 1 610 282 - 5.5

10. TAIPEI (TPE) - 1 593 015 - (5.5)

 

Selected Asian Airports:

11. DUBAI (DXB) - 1 590 740 - 9.5

13. BANGKOK (BKK) - 1 178 000 - 5.8

18. OSAKA (KIX) - 763 583 - (0.6)

21. KUALA LUMPUR (KUL) - 583 087 - (3.5)

22. BEIJING (PEK) - 548 824 - 42.1

27. BAHRAIN (BAH) - 366 731 - 6.4

28. MUMBAI (BOM) - 362 561 - 14.1

29. TEL AVIV (TLV) - 341 704 - 6.8

 

Notes: KUL is world's 21st busiest airport in term of international cargo handled in the year 2007.

 

* * * * *

Although both passengers and cargo figures for KUL are increasing, I believe there are more that can be done to improve our ranking. After all, KUL is still operating way below capacity of 35 milllion passengers annually after 10 years of operation. That is not something that can be proud of I suppose. MH's entry into an alliance and AirAsia's growth will contribute significantly to KUL's passengers traffic.

 

As for cargo, I think more should be done to lure businesses to ship their cargo via KUL. BKK are handling more than 1 million metric tonne of cargo per year while SIN at almost 2 million metric tonne. If Port of Tanjung Pelepas can steal Maersk Sealand and Evergreen Marine Corporation from the Port of Singapore, I believe we can steal some air cargo businesses from them (SIN and BKK) as well. KUL has a capacity of handling 1.2 million metric tonne of cargo per year but only handled around 600,000 metric tonne of cargo at present. Operating at 50% capacity is not good after being around for 10 years I suppose.

[KC Sim 2]

Hong Kong International Airport's final numbers for 2007 are 47.8 million passengers and growth rate of 7.5% over the preceding year.

 

KC Sim

[Izanee 0]

the problem with KUL is the ACC's record of robberies and theft...many companies are reluctant to use them and prefer to send them across to SIN for transfer. if ACC bucks up - then KUL can improve its cargo rankings as Malaysia is a important trading nation. its such a shame a lot of our pax and cargo go via SIN

[Mohd. Helmi 0]

the problem with KUL is the ACC's record of robberies and theft...many companies are reluctant to use them and prefer to send them across to SIN for transfer. if ACC bucks up - then KUL can improve its cargo rankings as Malaysia is a important trading nation. its such a shame a lot of our pax and cargo go via SIN

 

It is a shame, but I don't think it's fair for you to tie securty issues along with pax. Malaysians prefer to travel via SIN for an entirely different variety of reasons. I would prefer to go via SIN than I would KUL simply because i find it a nicer airport (its a subjective argument anyways), SIN is also an award winning airport (granted so is KLIA for its category), but most importantly IMO, besides being award winning SIN is a bigger airport thus offering better frequencies, not to mention also the hub of many airlines, SQ, QF/BA , GA has a big presence.

 

For any airport to to be great it needs a strong home or focus airline. Think about it, this has been the case throughout the world, LH have FRA, KLM have AMS, BA/VS have LHR, DL/AA/BA has JFK, SQ/QF have SIN, TG/LH/BA/CA have BKK. MH is not actually as strong as we all would like our flag carrier to be and I wonder how much MH has contributed to KLIA's growth over the last couple of years, I suspect not much, AK would have contributed more to growth, captured more of KLIA's market share and probably eroded MH's share, AK has been on the expansion. So in my view, for their to be any real climbing dent in those yearly airport figures, MH needs to buck up, or else I can forsee KLIA being a big budget airport, a Stansted Airport compared to Heathrow and Gatwick to the north and south of us.

 

M.H.

Edited March 21, 2008 by Mohd. Helmi

[Mohd Azizul Ramli 2]

The Star, 2 April 2008

 

KLIA gets world awards

By CHOW HOW BAN

 

SHANGHAI: KL International Airport (KLIA) has bagged the World’s Best Airport in the 15 million to 25 million passengers per annum category of the Airport Council International (ACI) Airport Service Quality Awards for the third consecutive year.

 

KLIA also jumped from third place in 2006 to second place in the overall Best Airport category in 2007. In the 2007 edition of ASQ Awards, South Korea’s Incheon International Airport placed first in the overall Best Airport category, and Singapore’s Changi Airport, third.

 

Other awards were presented to top performing airports worldwide in 16 categories at a gala dinner here on Monday night in conjunction with the two-day ACI conference on customer service and facilitation. Malaysia Airports Holdings Bhd managing director Datuk Seri Bashir Ahmad said that the awards won by KLIA belonged to all agencies and working partners, including the Customs, retailers and operation ground officers.

 

“Incheon International Airport has been placed first for the last three years. Below Incheon, we have two to three airports competing very hard for the next position,” he told Malaysian media here before the award presentation. Next year, we will not contest in the 15 million to 25 million passengers per annum category. We will go into the big league and concentrate on the overall category to see whether we can maintain, if not improve on, our position.”

 

Flight passengers at 90 airports were surveyed at departure gates last year on their feedback on customers’ service satisfaction level. The survey showed that KLIA scored well in terms of passenger security, courtesy of staff, efficiency of customs and immigration clearance, ambience, and cleanliness.

 

Malaysia will host the ACI conference next year. KLIA is also preparing to hold the World Route Development Forum this October.

[Chan CS 0]

KL used as transit drug link

 

NEW DELHI: Indian Customs suspect international drug lords are now using Kuala Lumpur as the transit point to distribute heroin to international markets following the recent arrests of two traffickers at the Indira Gandhi International Airport.

 

Customs officers had on Wednesday intercepted a Thai woman suspected of smuggling heroin to Kuala Lumpur when she was about to board a Malaysia-bound flight at the airport.

 

They detained the 26-year-old woman and seized from her 2.48kg of heroin worth RM2.5mil hidden under the bottom layer of her suitcase.

 

The arrest comes just weeks after New Delhi Customs arrested a 42-year-old Filipino man, also heading to Kuala Lumpur, who was trying to smuggle out 70 heroin capsules in his stomach. The 800gm drugs are worth RM800,000.

 

“Kuala Lumpur is becoming a hot spot for drug smugglers due to its connectivity. Heroin from Afghanistan is now being smuggled via New Delhi to South-East Asia and from Kuala Lumpur it is easy to reach any capital city,” a senior New Delhi Customs officer said.

 

He said the two suspects were mere couriers for well-linked international drug rings which smuggled heroin from Afghanistan.

 

The Thai woman admitted during interrogation that she was working for an international drug cartel. This was her third visit to the Indian capital for drug peddling. – Bernama

 

 

[Izanee 0]

hey...KLIA has found its niche market! if you can't beat BKK or SIN - then try something else!

[kandiah k 0]

hey...KLIA has found its niche market! if you can't beat BKK or SIN - then try something else!

 

 

You bet Izanee !! They always will !!

 

 

On another note, I am surprised with the awards received by KLIA as I have not seen much progress in terms of service quality and I still see the need for all parties involved to train their staff at the airport to be more courteous, sensitive and also please, fluent English speaking staff please !!

 

I feel for my home airport but I also feel that SIN as an airport and its quality and efficiency has not been acknowledged, especially being beaten by KUL, wonder what is the catch here !! KLIA should not dwell on its awards, instead they need to sustain whatever quality they have or improve on a faster pace or we will see airport such as MAA, LHR and many more becoming way ahead of KUL.