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Sydney Airport reports 3.1 million passengers for January; insufficient capacity delaying full recovery
February 22nd 2023
Sydney Airport CEO, Geoff Culbert, said a lack of international capacity is acting as a handbrake on the recovery of the air passenger market. Read More » The airport said 3.1 million passengers passed through its terminals in January, up 156% from the 1.2 million passengers processed in the same month in 2022. Domestic passengers travelling through Australia’s largest airport increased 98.1% year-on-year, to 1.9 million, and international passengers were up 369.1%, to 1.2 million travellers. “Passenger numbers are higher since our border reopened. Frustratingly, the recovery is being impacted by lack of capacity on key overseas routes,” Culbert said. “In January, U.S and UK travellers were three quarters of pre-COVID times and passengers from previously popular European countries like Germany and France were even lower.”
