Velana International Airport (VIA) reports of a record air traffic movement in 02nd January 2022.
According to the primary international air gateway of the Maldives, the airport recorded a total of 826 movements on Sunday earlier this week.
The news was confirmed through the official Twitter handle of Maldives Airports Company Limited (MACL) in which the company attested that on Sunday, a total of 233 runway movements and 593 seaplane movements were recorded.
Moreover, MACL had further attested that the previous record movement of air traffic was observed on 05th January 2020 during which the movement reached 811.
While air traffic movement at VIA shows impressive improvement, Maldives was visited by a total of 164,279 travelers in December 2021 exclusively while the annual tourist arrival for 2021 reached 1,321,932.
