Thailand: Budget carriers' passenger traffic continues to soar
LCCs have continued to take a bigger slice of overall airline traffic through Thailand, a trend that is set to continue unabated. The latest figures show that LCCs last year accounted for 44.9% of all passengers transiting through the 6 main airports operated by AoT, compared with 42% in 2015. Moving in tandem were aircraft movements by no-frills carriers through airports such as Suvarnabhumi and Don Mueang, which represented 45.3% of the total in 2016, edging up from 43.7% in the previous year. Last year saw LCCs account for 54.7m out of the 122m passengers that moved through AOT-operated airports, which handle the bulk of air traffic through Thailand. In contrast, budget airlines in 2015 handled 46.1m passengers out of the 110m total. LCC passenger traffic volume rose 23.9% last year. <br/>
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Thailand: Budget carriers' passenger traffic continues to soar
LCCs have continued to take a bigger slice of overall airline traffic through Thailand, a trend that is set to continue unabated. The latest figures show that LCCs last year accounted for 44.9% of all passengers transiting through the 6 main airports operated by AoT, compared with 42% in 2015. Moving in tandem were aircraft movements by no-frills carriers through airports such as Suvarnabhumi and Don Mueang, which represented 45.3% of the total in 2016, edging up from 43.7% in the previous year. Last year saw LCCs account for 54.7m out of the 122m passengers that moved through AOT-operated airports, which handle the bulk of air traffic through Thailand. In contrast, budget airlines in 2015 handled 46.1m passengers out of the 110m total. LCC passenger traffic volume rose 23.9% last year. <br/>
