SENAI: Senai International Airport has welcomed its three-millionth passenger of 2017, marking a new milestone in the country's only privately managed airport. The passenger was 32-year-old Umi Kalsom Roseli, who arrived at the airport at around 4.05pm via AirAsia flight AK 6044 from Kuala Lumpur. Tee said the number of air travellers had increased significantly from 1.99 million passengers in 2013, to 2.3 million in 2014 and then 2.5 million in 2015 and 2.8 million in 2016 before hitting 3.1 million passengers in 2017. Tee said the majority of the international passengers arriving and departing from Senai were mainland Chinese and Indonesians. The airport currently connects to 11 domestic routes and seven international destinations, namely Bangkok, Guangzhou, Ho Chi Minh, Jakarta, Kolkata, Macau and Surabaya.

Source: The Star December 30, 2017 10:05 UTC