Passenger numbers at Changi Airport in 2022 rebound to 50% of pre-pandemic levels

About 32.2m passengers passed through Changi Airport in 2022, which is nearly half the passenger traffic for the airport in 2019 before the Covid-19 pandemic. A total of 219,000 flights – 57.2% of the 382,000 flights in 2019 – also took off or landed at the airport, according to the latest figures released by Changi Airport Group on Tuesday. December was the busiest month, with 4.62m passengers passing through Changi Airport. This is 72% of the passenger traffic in December 2019. In the week between Dec 12 and Dec 18 alone, a little more than a million passengers or 82% of the weekly average traffic in 2019 were handled at the airport. In December 2022, 25,400 flights – more than three-quarters of the number before the Covid-19 pandemic – landed or took off at Changi Airport. Changi Airport’s top five passenger markets for the year were Australia, followed by Malaysia, Indonesia, India and Thailand. With South-east Asia seeing a strong recovery in passenger traffic, Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok and Jakarta were Changi Airport’s three busiest routes, similar to 2019. Among Changi’s top 10 markets, passenger traffic from South Korea in December 2022 exceeded pre-Covid-19 levels. This was partly due to additional capacity from Changi’s airline partners, including new airlines T’way Air and Air Premia on the Singapore-Seoul route, and Scoot plying the new Singapore-Jeju route, said CAG.<br/>