BANGKOK (NNT) - Airports of Thailand is confident that its passenger target for 2023 at 95 million will be achieved, thanks to a swift recovery in the tourism sector.

 

Airports of Thailand (AOT) has announced that the country is on track to hit the 95 million passenger number across all of its 6 airports this year. AOT’s Chief Executive Officer Kirati Kitmanawat said 66.38 million passengers traveled through AOT-managed airports in the first 8 months of the 2023 fiscal year, starting October 2022.

 

This figure reflects a 170.4% year-on-year growth, with most being international passengers at 34.31 million, representing a 635.7% expansion. The number of domestic passengers in the same period was logged at 32.06 million, showing a 61.3% growth.

 

The AOT has set the annual passenger number target at 95 million for 2023, and at 142 million next year, which will be comparable to the pre-pandemic level.

 

The AOT is expected to start trialing the new satellite concourse (SAT-1) at Bangkok Suvarnabhumi Airport this September, which will provide 216,000 extra square kilometers of passenger area. The company also reported some 2 billion baht profit in the first half of this year.

 

By Tanakorn Sangiam

 

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Source: https://thainews.prd.go.th/en/news/detail/TCATG230704135001660

 

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16 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

the new satellite concourse (SAT-1) at Bangkok Suvarnabhumi Airport this September, which will provide 216,000 extra square kilometers of passenger area

216,000 square kilometers!! That's almost half the size of Thailand itself - very impressive indeed ????

A typical figure of TAT statistics...

Ah, a good news story from AOT to counter the negative PR from the meat grinder walkway issue.

 

Better than the usual returned bag of money story I guess.