A million passengers in Mozambican airports in 2023

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A million passengers in Mozambican airports in 2023

9:50 CAT | 29 Dec 2023

FILE - For illustration purposes only. [File photo: Lusa]

Mozambique’s publicly owned airports company, ADM, has received more than a million passengers this year, thus recovering from the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic somewhat earlier than expected.

According to Jose Candrinho, the director of operations of ADM, cited in Thursday’s issue of the independent newssheet ”Mediafax”, the landmark of a million passengers was reached on 18 December.

This was the first time since 2019 that the airports had carried a million passengers. The flow of passengers through Mozambican airports had suffered a sharp decline as from 2020, due to the restrictive measures imposed by the government in response to the pandemic.

The plans of ADM indicated that the number of passengers using the country’s airports would not reach a million a year until 2024 or 2025. But Candrinho announced that on 18 December “we reached the landmark of the millionth passenger, which is of great importance for us, since the last time we reached this number was before Covid-19”.

He added that in 2023 ADM made major investments which improved facilities for passengers, notably at the embarkation gates. This was possible because of the increase in flights. Mozambique Airlines (LAM), for example, has resumed flights between Maputo and Lisbon, as well as direct flights between Johannesburg and various Mozambican cities. In October, the South African company Flysafair began scheduled flights to Maputo.

In 2022, said Candrinho, only 850,000 passengers passed through Mozambican airports.

Source: AIM