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GMR Hyderabad Airport records highest ever monthly traffic in May 2024

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Shamshabad: The Hyderabad Airport, officially known as the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport located in Shamshabad has a new record in the month of May. With hundreds of families travelling to vacations in this summer season, the air traffic of the GMR International Airport has recorded its highest ever monthly passenger traffic in May, 2024, as per the official report.

According to the official figures released by the GMR Group on the Airport Traffic Insights, it is said that 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.

Sustainable increase since October 2023

Further it was also revealed that the passenger traffic is showing a sustainable increase from October 2023 onwards. It was said that “ Pax traffic transcended sustainably above 2 mn Pax every month since October 2023.”

Further the GMR group has also began expanding the Air Cargo expansion and bhumi puja ritual is also performed on May 18, 2024 on the same, marking the beginning of the same. Meanwhile, construction of the new cargo terminal 2 with an initial annual capacity of 50,000 MT in phase 1 is also planned with a future expansion of 100,000 MT in phase 2.

Similar details for the Delhi and Goa Airport were also released by the GMR group. Meanwhile, several sustainable initiatives are also being taken at the Delhi Airport