THUR, JAN 02 2020-theG&BJournal- The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) published its Air Transportation Data (Q1,Q2 2019) that shows the total number of passengers who passed through Nigerian airports reached 4,002,528 in the first quarter of 2019, a 3.87% year-on-year growth from the same quarter of 2018; and 4,485,170 in the second quarter of 2019, a year-on-year growth of 6.82% from the same quarter in 2018.
The data report noted that the first two quarters of 2019 saw diverse performance in the various items that make up airport transportation in Nigeria.
In all, there was 12.06% growth in passengers for Q2 2019 when compared to Q1 2019 numbers. Total aircraft traffic declined year-on-year for Q1 (-1.04%) & and increased for Q2 (2.60%) when compared to the corresponding quarter in 2018.
In the first half of 2019, aircraft traffic totalled 138,464, a 100.61% growth from total aircrafts recorded in the same period last year.
A year-on-year decline of -0.65% was recorded in Cargo movement in H1 2019 while there was a 26.39% increase in total mail traffic recorded in the first half of 2019 when compared to the same period last year.
The report showed that 2,003,865 domestic passengers passed through the Lagos airport in H1 2019 while foreign passengers movement through the airport in the same period reached 1,487,209. Abuja airport recorded 1,999,478 and 455,139 in domestic and foreign passengers movement in H1 2019 respectively.
547,972 domestic passengers passed through the Port Harcourt airport while 38,544 foreign passengers used the airport in H12019, the data shows. Kano airport also recorded 261,903 domestic passengers movement and 103,331 foreign passengers movement.
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