MAHB Expects Better Passenger Traffic in Second Half of 2016

Malaysia Airports Holdings Bhd (MAHB) expects passenger traffic at Malaysian airports to improve further in the second half of this year following a pick up in momentum early this year. 
Managing director Badlisham Ghazali said 2015 was a challenging year for Malaysian airports as the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) had shown a flat growth, predominantly due to residual effect of two tragedies involving the national carrier (MH370 and MH17) and also Malaysia Airlines' restructuring, according to Malaysia's (Bernama) News Agency. 
As of May this year, Malaysian airports had recorded an encouraging growth of 4.3% year-on-year, with KLIA Main recording 9.3 million passengers and klia2 11.6 million passenegers, which was a 13.4% increase over the same corresponding period, said Badlisham. 
"In KLIA, the number of internatioanal and domestic (passengers) has gone up, due to new airlines coming in like Shaheen Airline and VietJet Air which introduce new routes, and existing airlines increasing their frequencies as was announced by KLM recently as well as high growth from Malindo Air," he said. 
Badlisham said international traffic for KLIA also grew by 4% supported by improved passenger traffic from Northeast Asia and West Asia.

Source : QNA