Passenger movements at Singapore's Changi Airport exceed 1 mln in March

Singapore's Changi Airport handled 1.14 million passenger movements in March 2022, the first time exceeding the one-million level since March 2020, the airport said in its latest monthly e-magazine Changi Journeys.

This was 20.3 percent of March 2019's traffic, it said.

For the first quarter of this year, aircraft movements reached 36,200 with 2.56 million passenger movements registered, which is 15.6 percent of pre-COVID-19 levels, it said.

In the first quarter, the top five passenger markets were Australia, India, Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia.

Airfreight movements totaled 458,000 tons during the first three months of 2022 to reach 93 percent of pre-COVID-19 levels. The top five air cargo markets for the quarter were the Chinese mainland, Australia, China's Hong Kong, the United States and Japan.