Bahrain International Airport records three million passengers during first half of 2022
TDT | Manama
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Almost 3 million passengers passed through Bahrain International Airport (BIA) during the first half of 2022, a meeting of the Bahrain Airport Company’s (BAC) Airport Facilitation Committee said. The committee is tasked with reviewing the operational facilitation of passengers, crew, and baggage at Bahrain International Airport (BIA) as per what was laid down by the Airport Facilitation Program, in line with the directions received from 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 in achieving Airports Council International (ACI) Airport Customer Experience Accreditation Level 2.
"We are all proud of how well our airport has performed this year," BAC Chief Executive Officer Mohamed Yousif Al Binfalah said. "After losing more than 75% of our usual traffic in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we witnessed a recovery in 2021 and now have recorded almost 3 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 9 million by the end of 2023.
The passenger experience is central to our vision and strategies and partners play a vital role in building on BIA’s reputation as a friendly and efficient airport, offering the world a gateway to the Kingdom that makes our country proud. However, we must work harder to further exceed expectations.
This requires a concerted effort from all of us now that we are seeing a return to normalcy and physical meetings, and I am confident we can achieve these goals with teamwork and continued determination."
The committee also discussed updates to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Council’s international Standards and Recommended Practices (SARPs) that address national civil aviation responses to public health emergencies and the security and inspection of travel and related health documents.
Amendment 29 to Annex 9 – Facilitation to the Chicago Convention addresses a wider range of facilitation provisions relating to the conduct of relief and repatriation flights, air travelers with disabilities, assistance to aircraft accident victims and their families, and the use of civil aviation for the trafficking of persons.
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