Muharraq: Mahmood Rafique, Editor: With three million passengers recorded by the Bahrain International Airport (BIA) during the first half of 2022, the BIA is on the track to achieve 6.5million target by the year end and nine million passengers by the close of 2023.
This came as the Bahrain Airport Company’s (BAC) Airport Facilitation Committee held the first in person meeting since the pandemic struck two years ago. The meeting explained and reviewed the operational facilitation of passengers, crew, and baggage at BIA in line with Airport Facilitation Programme directions of the BCAA.
The committee reviewed a range of topics, including BIA’s performance figures for the first half of the year and the recent milestone of achieving Airports Council International (ACI) Airport Customer Experience Accreditation Level 2, which underscores the efforts of BAC and its partners to deliver an exceptional customer experience.
“We are proud of how well BIA has performed during the first half the year in the backdrop of losing more than 75 per cent of usual traffic in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. We witnessed a recovery in 2021 and now have recorded almost three million passengers during the first six months of the current year. We expect to serve approximately 6.5 million passengers by the end of 2022 and hope to be back to serving more than nine million by the end of 2023,” Mohamed Yousif Al Binfalah told the participants.
“The passenger experience is central to our vision and strategies. Our partners play a vital role in building on BIA’s reputation as a friendly and efficient airport, offering the world class the services and facilities.”
