Changi Airport’s weekly passenger traffic hits 75% of pre-pandemic level

Up to 150,000 passengers are passing through Changi Airport daily, with about a million each week, or about 75% of the average number of weekly passengers pre-pandemic, said Transport Minister S. Iswaran on Sunday. This is more than twice the number who passed through the airport when Singapore reopened its borders to vaccinated travellers in April. Despite the uptick, the airport is well equipped to handle the higher volume, Iswaran said on Facebook, citing the reopenings of Terminal 4, on Sept 13, and the southern wing of Terminal 2, on Oct 11. He added that Singapore’s aviation workforce is now at about 90% of pre-pandemic levels. Last Wednesday, Changi Airport Group (CAG) said 2022 has been a year of strong recovery, as the number of passengers and flight movements has climbed steadily over the months. It handled 23.6m passengers in the first 10 months of the year, representing 42% of its pre-pandemic traffic. Of those 23.6m people, 3.69m passed through Changi Airport’s terminals in October, or about 65% of its traffic in October 2019.<br/>