Singapore Changi Airport has announced that in 2016, it has reached 58.7 million passenger movements (5.9 percent higher than the previous year) and 360,490 aircraft movements (4.1 percent higher than the previous year), adding that airfreight throughput increased by 6.3 percent to also reach a new high of 1.97 million tonnes.
For the month of December, Changi Airport reported that it registered 5.68 million passenger movements, 31,970 aircraft movements, and 177,360 airfreight movements.
It said that the airport saw its busiest day in its history on 23 December 2016, with 202,359 passengers passing through its gates.
In 2016, routes to South East Asia, North East Asia and Oceania contributed 90% of the growth in passenger traffic. China moved from fifth to become Changi Airport’s third largest country market for the year, with robust traffic growth of 15 percent. This was on the back of very strong visitor arrivals to Singapore. A healthy increase in visitor numbers also contributed to passenger traffic growth for Thailand and Vietnam.
There was little change in the top 10 list of Changi Airport’s busiest routes for the year, with Jakarta remaining at the top. Kuala Lumpur moved up one notch, swapping places with Bangkok. Among Changi Airport’s top 20 city links, Guangzhou was the fastest growing, with Melbourne, Penang and Seoul also achieving double-digit growth.
Changi Airport has also announced that it welcomed two passenger airlines (West Air and Fiji Airways), and two freighter carriers (Neptune Air and Silkway West Airlines) to its family of over 100 airlines. United Airlines and Singapore Airlines commenced non-stop flights to San Francisco, while freighter airline K-Mile Air resumed operations to Changi Airport.
Eight new city links were established during the year – to India (Amritsar and Jaipur), China (Urumqi), Australia (Canberra), New Zealand (Wellington), Fiji (Nadi), Japan (Sapporo) and Germany (Dusseldorf).
“In terms of airfreight throughput, growth was recorded across imports, exports and transshipments,” Changi Airport wrote, stating that perishables and pharmaceuticals were segments that performed well, contributing a significant portion of Changi’s total cargo throughput.
It then noted that the top five country markets for airfreight were China, Australia, Hong Kong, the United States and India.
Changi Airport siad that it formed a community of cargo partners to undergo the attainment of International Air Transport Association’s (IATA) Center of Excellence for Independent Validators on Pharmaceutical Handling (CEIV Pharma) certification.
Under a community approach, at least one company from each of the supply chain nodes (airlines, ground handlers, freight forwarders) will undergo the CEIV Pharma certification.
The pioneer group of companies consists of Singapore Airlines Cargo, dnata Singapore, Global Airfreight International, Expeditors Singapore, CEVA Logistics Singapore, and Schenker Singapore.
SATS Coolport was the first facility in the world to be certified in 2014. Beyond the establishment of a CEIV Phama certified community, Changi Airport Group also joined Pharma.Aero, an organisation focused on achieving reliable end-to-end air transportation for pharmaceutical cargo.
In October 2016, the DHL Express South Asia Hub, a 24-hour express hub facility located within Changi Airfreight Centre, was officially opened. This has tripled DHL Express’ cargo handling facility in Singapore and allows shipments to be processed six times faster.SATS’ upcoming eCommerce AirHub is also expected to open later this year.
According to the media, Changi Airport was awarded 26 Best Airport awards in 2016, bringing the total to 533 to date.
Accolades included Skytrax’s World’s Best Airport Award 2016, for the fourth time in a row, and Business Traveller’s ‘Best Airport in the World’ award for the 29th consecutive year.
Changi Airport Group CEO Mr Lee Seow Hiang, said, “2016 was a record-breaking year for Changi Airport, with passenger traffic and cargo throughput both registering new peaks. We are also pleased with the introduction of many new city links, including to Europe and Oceania, as well as the launch of non-stop services to the United States.”
“Despite a backdrop of economic and socio-political uncertainties, we maintain a positive outlook for the year ahead. We see opportunities in emerging markets within Africa and Eastern Europe. At the same time, we will continue to grow our long haul routes to Western Europe, and strengthen our connectivity within the region to secondary cities in South East Asia, China and India,” he added.
“We have observed emerging trends such as growth in the self-transfer and fly-cruise segments, and will continue to work with our partners to develop innovative solutions to better serve passengers. Similarly, manageable fuel costs and improvement in aircraft technology bode well for Changi Airport’s drive to work with airlines to expand our network of city links.”
“We thank the airport community and our many partners who helped to maintain high service standards at Changi Airport even as traffic continued to grow. We look forward to their continued support in 2017 as we prepare for the opening of Terminal 4 later this year,” he ended.

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