Malaysia Airports Holdings Berhad, Senior GM, Strategy, Megat Ardian Wira Mohd Aminuddin, at CAPA Asia Aviation Summit 2023
Malaysia Airports Holdings Berhad, Senior GM, Strategy, Megat Ardian Wira Mohd Aminuddin, spoke to CAPA TV at the CAPA Australia Pacific Aviation Summit 2023 in Brisbane about latest industry trends and company developments.
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Megat Ardian Wira Mohd Aminuddin:So we're not back to pre-pandemic 2019 just yet. What I see for 2023, we would hit probably about 82-83% of the total group passengers. Coming into 2024, going into 2024, I would suspect it would be very, very close to 2019 numbers, pre-pandemic numbers. In terms of longer-term planning, what we see is actually for 2024 and 2025, a lot more aircraft are coming off maintenance. So they will be back Q3 2024, trickling in, of course. But 2023— sorry, Q3 and Q4 in 2023, that's when a lot of them coming back from maintenance. We also see a lot of orders that have been ordered before, they're coming into the system 2024 onwards. So with that, there will be a lot more growth, a lot more passengers, and that's where for Malaysia Airports, we've got to get that ready. We've got our digitalisation efforts, initiatives on the ground already to ease the passenger flow for faster check-in, faster queues to get that passenger flow through. But eventually, with the proper information that's coming in from the airlines, we will also have the proper planning for expansion, capacity expansion. So we have a few infrastructure projects at our other airports, other international airports, that's building from a capacity of maybe 1.5 to 3 million and then onwards from 3 million to 5 million to cater for the growth. That's also putting in new, I think, green technology in the airports. So that's also, other than brick-and-mortar expansion, we are engaging a lot on the digitalisation efforts to get the passenger through faster. So in a way, to buy time for us to really do that brick-and-mortar expansion. Thank you, Megat Ardian Wira Mohd Aminuddin, Senior GM Strategy Megat Ardian Wira Mohd Aminuddin, for joining us today.
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