GUWAHATI: The growth in Air traffic at the gateway of North East India, the Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport, Guwahati is growing at exponential rate and it has crossed over 6 million passenger capacity in the last Financial Year (FY) 2018-19.
The LGBI Airport has witnessed annual traffic of over 27% in 2018-19 with a total footfall of 60,18,054 passenger and 55,066 aircraft movements in the same period.
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Further, the Air cargo movement has also seen a surge of over 10% growth compared to last FY. The total cargo carried in FY 2019 stands at 23,847 tones. Guwahati Airport has recently operationalised its International Cargo complex which has an annual capacity of carrying over 8000 MT air cargo. The customs clearance & EDI facility with Plant Quarantine is already in place at the Airport.
The mail services at the LGBI Airport has further grown by 12.79 % in the year 2018-19. A total of 1,680 mail services catered at the Airport.
The Airport is poised to witness more traffic in coming days as Guwahati Airport is now opened for 24x7 operations from April 2019 onward.