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KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia Airports Holdings Bhd (MAHB) registered 118.5 million passenger movement in 2016, up 5.7 per cent, from 2015.

In a statement yesterday, the airports operator said international traffic dipped 6.5 per cent to 52.8 million passengers while domestic traffic recorded 65.7 million passenger movements with a 5.4 per cent growth compared with the same period in 2015.

“Overall aircraft movements grew 0.9 per cent with international and domestic movement registering a growth of 1.5 per cent and 0.6 per cent, respectively,” it said.

On the home front, airports in Malaysia registered 88.8 million in passenger movements, a growth of 6.0 per cent over 2015.

The international sector recorded a 8.0 per cent improvement in passenger movement to 43.2 million over 2015.

Domestic traffic, on the other hand, recorded 45.6 million passenger movements, an improvement of 4.1 per cent, over the same period in 2015. Kota Kinabalu, Penang, Langkawi, Alor Setar, Ipoh, Tawau and Mulu were among the airports that registered strong increase in traffic last year.

MAHB said the traffic growth of 6.0 per cent last year was an indication of continuing latent demand for air travel.

“It is encouraging to note that international passenger growth momentum, year- on- year, had picked up in the second half of 2016, improving from 5.0 per cent in the first half to 11.0 per cent in the second half,” it added. — Bernama