Mangaluru
Mangaluru International Airport (MIA) recorded a growth of 12.5 percent during 2023-24. The Airport handled 20,18,796 passengers as against 17,94,054 passengers in the previous fiscal 2022-23. The number of domestic travellers was 14,08,300 and international travellers stood at 6,10,496. Domestic travellers increased by 16.5 percent in 2023-24. Likewise, international travellers were 4.2 percent higher than what was recorded in the previous year.
The Air Traffic Movements (ATMs) during 2023-24 at 15,113 was 4.4 percent higher than the 14,475 ATMs handled during the previous fiscal.
The General Aviation (chartered flights) grew at 37.7 percent in the last fiscal where the airport handled 365 flights, which was 100 more than what the airport handled in 2022-23. The increase in domestic ATMs despite the multiple challenges that airlines operating to the airport faced was an impressive 11.7 percent.
The highlight of domestic and international travel came in December 2023 when the airport handled a record 2 lakh passengers, which is the highest ever single month movement of passengers since the Commercial Operation Date. On the ATM front, MIA handled a record 1,550 ATMs in March 2024, the highest monthly movement. This was primarily due to a move by an airline to use more ATRs instead of Airbus in the Bengaluru-Mangaluru sector.
Air India Express has provided a narrow-bodied aircraft (Boeing 737 Max) for one-way through connectivity between Chennai and Mangaluru via Bengaluru in the summer schedule that got under way on March 31. IndiGo is operating two direct flights daily to Chennai using ATRs.
