RGIA is country’s fourth busiest airport
Transfer traffic has increased from nine per cent in 2015 to 26 per cent this year
Hyderabad: With an overwhelming increase in the annual passenger footfall from 12 million to 34 million in its integrated domestic and international terminal, Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA) has emerged as the fourth busiest airport in the country.
A feature of RGIA, which is presently connected to 70 domestic destinations, has been that although the overall international travel was subdued during the lockdown, the airport at Shamshabad added flights to Chicago and Maldives, besides London.
Transfer traffic has increased from nine per cent in 2015 to 26 per cent this year.
According to airport data, there is an earnest interest among the people of Telangana to visit holiday destinations like Maldives, Nepal, Bhutan, Mauritius, Vietnam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Japan, Korea and New Zealand.
Incidentally, RGIA is the only airport in the country where all ten domestic airlines operate.