More passengers, aircraft movements & cargo at Changi Airport in Nov

More passengers, aircraft and airfreight cargo were handled at Singapore Changi Airport in the month of November.

Changi Airport Group (CAG) said the airport handled 4.46 million passenger movements in November 2013, an increase of 2.3 per cent over the same month last year.

CAG said in the first eleven months of the year, more than 48.6 million passenger movements were registered, a 5.1 per cent increase on-year.

Air traffic movements for November grew 6.9 per cent to 29,500 flights.

For the first eleven months of the year, aircraft movements totalled 312,800, an increase of 5.8 per cent compared to a year ago.

CAG said travel demand was strongest for Indonesia, Japan and Malaysia in November.

Traffic to and from Denpasar, Kuala Lumpur and Tokyo rose by more than 10 per cent over the corresponding period last year.

Changi Airport also handled more cargo compared to a year ago.

From January and November, Changi Airport handled 1.7 million tonnes of cargo, an increase of 0.9 per cent compared to the same period in 2012.

Airfreight movements registered a 2.4 per cent growth on-year, with a total of 161,000 tonnes of cargo handled during November. 

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