Shoppers at Jewel Changi Airport mall in Singapore, on Wednesday, April 20, 2022. The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), in its policy statement, said it expects the economy to grow “above-trend” for a second year in 2022, with the output gap turning “slightly positive” and GDP fully recovering from the pandemic. - Bloomberg
SINGAPORE, April 24 (Xinhua): Singapore's Changi Airport handled 1.14 million passenger movements in March 2022, the first time exceeding the one-million level since March 2020, the airport said in its latest monthly e-magazine Changi Journeys.
This was 20.3 per cent of March 2019's traffic, it said.
For the first quarter of this year, aircraft movements reached 36,200 with 2.56 million passenger movements registered, which is 15.6 percent of pre-COVID-19 levels, it said.
In the first quarter, the top five passenger markets were Australia, India, Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia.
Airfreight movements totaled 458,000 tons during the first three months of 2022 to reach 93 percent of pre-Covid-19 levels.
The top five air cargo markets for the quarter were the Chinese mainland, Australia, China's Hong Kong, the United States and Japan. - Xinhua
