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Compared to the year before the epidemic in 2019, the Bengaluru airport's Kempegowda International Airport saw an 82% increase in passenger volume in 2022. In 2022, 27.5 million passengers used the Kempegowda International Airport in Bengaluru. Domestic business at the airport recovered by 85%, while international business recovered by 65%.
The number of passengers reached a peak during the end-of-year holiday season, reaching 3.13 million in December (2.74 million of whom were domestic passengers), breaking the previous pre-Covid record of 3.06 million travellers set in December 2019.The busiest day of the year was December 23, when 107,825 people travelled through.
The percentage of Air Transport Movements (ATM) that had returned to pre-Covid levels was reported by Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) to be 98%. During the year, the airport's domestic ATM saw a 100% recovery.
According to BIAL, most airlines fully resumed operations in 2022 after the two difficult years of the pandemic, connecting to a greater number of destinations. The facility now links to 75 destinations around India, an increase of 16 locations from pre-Covid.
Following the company's return to regular international operations in March 2022, Qantas Airways established the first direct route from South India to Australia between Bengaluru and Sydney with four weekly flights, according to BIAL.
With almost 40% of domestic travel, Delhi, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Kochi, and Kolkata, were Bengaluru's top domestic routes in 2022. On the other hand, the main international routes, which accounted for approximately 47% of all travel from outside, were Dubai, Singapore, Male, Doha, and Abu Dhabi.
According to Satyaki Raghunath, Chief Strategy & Development Officer of BIAL, the year 2022 was a turning point for Kempegowda International Airport because that year saw the opening of Terminal 2, improving the airport's position as "the natural gateway to South & Central India.
Emirates has started operating an A380 between Dubai and Bangalore, citing rising demand from South India and the Bangalore Airport. Furthermore, the airport became the first in Central and South India to have direct access to North America when Air India resumed service on its three-times weekly Bengaluru to San Francisco route in Dec of last year.
According to the report, transit passengers contributed to the growth in passenger traffic. It also stated that with over 100 daily departures, the percentage of transfer passengers grew to 15%, which is +5% compared to pre-Covid years.
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