Changi Reports August 2012 Traffic

Singapore Changi Airport handled some 4.28 million passenger movements in August 2012, an increase of 10.9% compared to a year ago. Air traffic movements for the month also grew by 6.5% to 27,400 flights.

Demand for air travel to and from Southeast Asia, South Asia, Southwest Pacific, the Middle East, Africa and the Americas was strong, with double-digit growth registered for each of these regions.

Airfreight movements declined by 4.4% on-year, with 146,400 tonnes of cargo passing through Changi Airport during the month.

For the first eight months of 2012, Changi Airport registered 33.6 million passenger movements (+10.5%), 214,000 flight movements (+9.0%) and 1.20 million tonnes of cargo (-1.9%).

As at 1 September 2012, more than 100 airlines operate at Changi Airport, connecting Singapore to over 230 cities in some 60 countries and territories around the world.

With more than 6,200 weekly scheduled flights, an aircraft takes off or lands at Changi roughly once every 100 seconds.

New Services @ Changi

Scoot started four times-weekly Singapore-Tianjin services on 23 August 2012, and thrice-weekly Singapore-Taipei services on 18 September 2012. These were the airline’s fourth and fifth destinations respectively since its launch and follow Sydney, Gold Coast and Bangkok.

On the cargo front, Singapore Airlines Cargo commenced a weekly freighter service to Viracopos in Brazil, Changi Airport’s first freighter link to Latin America, on 16 August 2012. The return flight takes a Viracopos – Dallas – Brussels – Sharjah – Singapore routing.

New Outlets @ Changi

A variety of new shops were introduced at Changi Airport in August.

In the public areas, Heavenly Wang, part of the Wang Café chain, opened a new outlet at Terminal 3, offering Singapore-style quick meals such as chicken rice and laksa. Over at Terminal 2, Chocolates.Candy.Delicatessen added a new store, and i-Sound, a new concept store specialising in music accessories such as earphones and speakers, also commenced operations.

In the transit areas, two brand names added a store each in Terminal 3 – Tiffany & Co and Hugo Boss. Terminal 2 also saw the setting up of two new stores – Luvenus, which carries gold jewellery and accessories – and Macau Express, which is located one level up from the Transit Lounge and provides set meals of porridge, rice and noodles in Chinese style.

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