As the first half of CY2022 comes to an end, Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport (CSMIA) has witnessed robust growth in passenger movements with nearly 17 million passengers travelling between Jan to June 2022. One of the busiest airports across the globe, CSMIA recorded a significant jump in traffic for the H1 (first half) CY2022 of close to 132% as compared to H1 CY2021. The strong revival of operations in 2022 signals the sector steadily moving towards healthy operations as observed in the pre-covid times.
In the H1 of CY 2022, CSMIA played host to a total of approximately 16.84 million passengers
• Approximately 1,30,000 flight movements were recorded across domestic and international destinations
• 13.36 million domestic passengers travelled through 97,460 flights
• Over 3.48 million passengers flew across 24,910 flights internationally, which is 97% more than that of H1 CY2021 when close to 1.76 million passenger footfalls were registered
• May 2022 emerged as the top month for air travel via CSMIA with 21st May 2022, observing the highest single-day traffic of 1,23,442 during the period of CY2022.
• CSMIA catered to highest international load in June’22 with 8,30,000 passengers observing 124% rise since January’22.
Enhancing global connectivity-
• To further amplify the growth in passenger traffic, CSMIA has introduced Abu Dhabi, Najaf, Phuket, Warsaw, and Hanoi & Ho Chi Minh City to its extensive global connectivity.
• Air Arabia Abu Dhabi, Fly Baghdad, IndiGo, LOT Polish and VietJet commenced their operations on this route with their maiden flights taking off from CSMIA in H1 of CY2022.
• With the aim of constantly working towards expanding its connectivity, CSMIA to add 9 new destinations to its portfolio including Bahrain, Ras Al-Khaimah, Toronto and Helsinki among others.
