{"id":45166,"date":"2026-04-17T13:15:48","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T05:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=45166"},"modified":"2026-04-17T13:15:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T05:15:48","slug":"changi-airport-passenger-traffic-hits-record-12-month-high-despite-sharp-drop-in-middle-east-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=45166","title":{"rendered":"Changi Airport passenger traffic hits record 12-month high despite sharp drop in Middle East travel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">Aircraft movements, comprising landings and take-offs, totalled 95,300 for the quarter, up 1.4 per cent compared with the same period last year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Australia and India were Changi Airport\u2019s top five markets for the first quarter.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">Vietnam and China, among Changi Airport\u2019s top 10 markets, posted the strongest growth, rising 26.5 per cent and 17.7 per cent year-on-year respectively.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok, Jakarta, Tokyo and Hong Kong were the top five city links for the quarter, while Shanghai, Taipei and Tokyo registered the strongest growth among the 10 busiest routes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>For cargo,<span lang=\"EN-US\"> Changi Airport handled 517,000 tonnes of airfreight throughput in the first quarter of the year, 7.6 per cent higher than the same period last year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">China, the US, Australia, Hong Kong and India were Changi\u2019s top five air cargo markets for the quarter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u201cAmid global trade uncertainties, Changi recorded growth for both exports and imports compared with Q1 2025,\u201d said CAG.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">Changi Airport <\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">recorded 69.98 million passenger movements in 2025<\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">, an improvement of 3.4 per cent compared with 2024.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">Aircraft movements in 2025 also rose 2.2 per cent year-on-year to 374,000 movements, while airfreight throughput totalled 2.08 million tonnes, exceeding the previous year by 4.5 per cent.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/singapore\/changi-airport-record-passenger-traffic-volume-march-2026-q1-6062716\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aircraft movements, comprising landings and take-offs, totalled 95,300 for the quarter, up 1.4 per cent compared with the same period last year. China, Indonesia, Malaysia,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dam.mediacorp.sg\/image\/upload\/s--X8ed0s6P--\/c_crop,h_576,w_1024,x_0,y_44\/c_fill,g_auto,h_676,w_1200\/fl_relative,g_south_east,l_mediacorp:cna:watermark:2023-11:afp_watermark_14112023,w_0.1\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1\/mediacorp\/cna\/image\/2026\/04\/17\/000_34pg3nl.jpg?itok=t_lZe7xC","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[20727,1350,1349,2642,6608,1950,305,8426,9492,1952,20728,2996,151],"class_list":["post-45166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-news-sg-global","tag-12month","tag-airport","tag-changi","tag-drop","tag-east","tag-high","tag-hits","tag-middle","tag-passenger","tag-record","tag-sharp","tag-traffic","tag-travel","wpcat-2-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/45167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}