Here we take a deep dive into the travel recovery at three rival hub airports in South East Asia: Bangkok Suvarnabhumi International Airport (BKK), Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KUL), and Singapore’s Changi International airport (SIN).
Tracking the Recovery: Singapore Leads for Total Airline Seats and Number of Connections
As of July 2022, Singapore just edged out Bangkok for the recovery in total number of airline seats in the schedules vs July 2019, at 56.6% (2,024,318 total seats), whilst Bangkok came in at 54.2% recovery (1,840,692 total seats), and Kuala Lumpur lagged behind in third place, at 45.8% (1,536,464 total seats).
All three airports saw a sharp increase in the number of seats available from Q4 2021 onwards, accelerating in Q2 2022 and into Q3 2022 as border restrictions were relaxed, both for vaccinated and unvaccinated travellers.
As for connecting flight traffic share, in June 2022 Singapore’s share was at 37% of total passengers, up from 27% in June…
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