Hyderabad Airport sees nearly tripled passenger growth in decade, 472 flights cancelled due to Global Outage in the country
Hyderabad: In the past decade since the formation of Telangana state, Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA) has registered a significant passenger growth nearly tripling from 8.7 million to 25 million during 2013-2014 to 2023-24, revealed the Ministry of Civil Aviation on Thursday.
In reply to the query from Medak MP Madhavaneni Ragunandhan Rao, Minister of State for Civil Aviation, Murlidhar Mohol revealed in the parliament that “there has been a steady increase in use of Shamshabad airport, Hyderabad. The Shamshabad airport handled 8.7 million total passengers during 2013-14 which has increased to 25 million during 2023-24 witnessing a Compounded Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 11 percent.”
The Rajiv Gandhi International Airport(RGIA) also referred to as Hyderabad had recently handled the highest-ever monthly Passenger traffic of 2.3 million passengers. According to the official figures released by the GMR Group on the Airport Traffic Insights report a month ago, the Hyderabad Airport traffic continues upward growth trajectory and further added that it has handled, highest-ever monthly passenger traffic in May 2024.
Meanwhile, on a single day alone, the Hyderabad Airport handled 82,300 passengers on May 18, which is the highest ever. It further added that in May 2024, a total of passenger traffic of 2.3 million passenger mark has crossed, which is an increase of 11 percent. And, the domestic traffic increased by 10 percent, while the international traffic increased by 14 percent, clearly indicating a rise in international passengers and travels to and fro from Hyderabad city, as per the report.
RGIA is being operated under the Private public partnership between Government of Telangana and Hyderabad International Airport limited(HIAL) owned by GMR airports infrastructure limited. The State government owns the airport and the joint venture company HIAL operates the airport.
Global Outage impact on aviation
The Global Outage was observed on 19 July 2024 around 9.40 AM. It is to be noted that following the outage of Microsoft Windows due to crowd strike agent Falcon Sensor, several services were affected throughout the world including the air services. Especially air passengers throughout the country including Rajiv Gandhi International airport (RGIA) were mostly affected.
Microsoft systems in various organisations showed error messages and stopped functioning.The Crowd strike update broke the computers running Windows, causing them to crash and display the Blue Screen of Death. The stoppage of the systems was caused due to a software update provided on to a cyber threat detection solution provided by a cyber security partner company. This issue affected organisations and users globally including in India where services of airlines, manufacturing and IT sector were impacted for a few hours.
“A total of 472 flights were cancelled in the country due to Global Outage. A routine Microsoft software update CrowdStrike significantly disrupted the aviation sector worldwide beside other sectors in July, 2024. The outage disrupted critical systems leading to cancellation and delays in flight operations, difficulties in accessing passenger bookings, passenger manifests, check-in, airport displays and others”, revealed Murlidhar Mohol, Minister of State for Civil Aviation in another query.
