Saudi airports’ passenger traffic rises to 62M in H1 2024

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The General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA) said that Saudi Arabia’s airports received 62 million passengers in the first half of 2024, a rise of 17% year-on-year (YoY).
 
In a statement today, July 11, GACA said the number of flights increased by 12% to 446,000, with the volume of air freight rising by 41% YoY to 606,000 tons in the same period.

The following table shows the number of flights and passengers since 2019:

According to GACA, King Abdulaziz International Airport (KAIA) reported an increase in the number of passengers and flights, with the passenger growth rate reaching 16%, totaling 24 million passengers. The number of flights stood at 148,000 in the first half of 2024. King Khalid International Airport came in the second place with a 21% growth rate and 17.7 million passengers.

The number of passengers at the two airports accounted for 41% of the total passengers in the Kingdom, while the number of flights accounted for 63% of the total flights, as shown in the following table: