Changi's weekly passenger numbers at 75% of levels before pandemic

Airport well equipped to handle this with aviation workforce back at 90%: Iswaran

- Aqil Hamzah

Up to 150,000 passengers are passing through Changi Airport daily, with about a million each week, or about 75 per cent of the average number of weekly passengers prepandemic, said Transport Minister S. Iswaran on Sunday.

This is more than twice the number who passed through the airport when Singapore reopened its borders to vaccinated travellers in April.

Despite the uptick, the airport is well equipped to handle the higher volume, Mr Iswaran said on Facebook, citing the reopenings of Terminal 4, on Sept 13, and the southern wing of Terminal 2, on Oct 11.

He added that Singapore's aviation workforce is now at about 90 per cent of pre-pandemic levels.

Last Wednesday, Changi Airport Group (CAG) said 2022 has been a year of strong recovery, as the number of passengers and flight movements has climbed steadily over the months.

It handled 23.6 million passengers in the first 10 months of the year, representing 42 per cent of its pre-pandemic traffic.

Of those 23.6 million people, 3.69 million passed through Changi Airport's terminals in October, or about 65 per cent of its traffic in October 2019.