InJourney Airports Serves 4.41 Million Passengers up to H1 of Eid al-Fitr
Jakarta (ANTARA) - PT Angkasa Pura Indonesia (InJourney Airports) recorded passenger movements reaching 4.41 million people at 37 managed airports during the period from H-7 to H1 of Eid al-Fitr 1447 Hijriah, reflecting high societal mobility during this year’s mudik flow.
“During the period of 13-21 March 2026 (H-7 to H1), the cumulative passenger movements at 37 InJourney Airports airports totalled 4.41 million passengers, up 3.7 percent from the same period last year (2025) which was 4.25 million passengers,” said InJourney Airports President Director Mohammad R. Pahlevi in a statement in Jakarta on Sunday.
He mentioned that the highest number of passengers occurred at the peak of the mudik flow on 18 March 2026 (H-2), reaching 568,964 passengers. Meanwhile, on Eid al-Fitr day, 21 March 2026, the number of passengers recorded was 397,670 people.
An increase also occurred in aircraft movements, where from 13-21 March 2026 there were 33,099 flights, experiencing an increase of up to 6 percent compared to the previous figure of 31,240 flights.
He stated that the increase in the number of aircraft passengers and flights could be well managed by all airports.
“The mudik flow ran smoothly. We are grateful that operational aspects and services during the mudik period were generally maintained, thanks to a well-planned operational strategy, support from all parties, and collaboration among airport stakeholders,” he said.
He explained that one form of collaboration is that airports can optimise slot times or the availability of take-off and landing times, to accommodate air travel demands from the public during the peak Eid transportation season.
“This slot time optimisation was also supported by the high realisation of additional flight operations (extra flights),” he said.
Furthermore, he stated that throughout 13-21 March 2026, InJourney Airports received around 2,500 extra flight requests from airlines. From the total requests, about 2,000 additional flights were realised.
According to him, that figure is quite high because generally the additional flights realised by airlines range from 60 to 70 percent of requests.
Thus, that figure indicates growing demand during Eid transportation, as well as good collaboration between all airport stakeholders.
InJourney Airports recorded the five busiest airports during this year’s mudik flow as Soekarno-Hatta in Tangerang (1.51 million passengers), I Gusti Ngurah Rai in Bali (523,944 passengers), Juanda in Surabaya (378,056 passengers), Sultan Hasanuddin in Makassar (283,099 passengers), and Kualanamu in Deli Serdang (207,661 passengers).