Top air cargo carriers for Maldives in 2018


Maldives
PUBLISHED May 26, 2019

According to the records released by the National Bureau of Statistics has shown that the largest volume of air cargo which was imported in the year 2018 was carried by SriLankan Airlines.

The records say that the quantity of cargo which was imported into the Maldives by SriLankan Airline was 11,964,781 kilos.

The second biggest air cargo carrier for Maldives in 2018 was Emirates, which carried 10,487,697 kilos of cargo into Maldives in the year 2018.

Singapore Airlines was placed at third with 4,218,532 kilos of air cargo.

On the other hand, Emirates placed top of the list of passenger carriers for Maldives in 2018. It carried 352,786 passengers into Maldives and 365,788 passengers out of the Maldives.

This was with 3,236 flights, which was the argest volume of international flights by a single airline.

The second largest number of passengers were carried into Maldives by SriLankan Airlines. It carried 281,810 passengers into Maldives and 239,526 passengers out of Maldives; and operated 2,288 flights to Maldives.

The third largest number of passengers were carried into Maldives by Qatar Airways. It carried in 140,210 passengers and carried out 147,156 passengers. The airline operated 1,574 flights to Maldives in 2018.

Maldivian Airlines, the national airline of the country, carried 395,457 into the Maldives, via Velana International Airport (VIA) and carried out t 404,403 passengers.

Maldivian also carried 248,013 kilos of air cargo imports and 543,679 kilos of air cargo exports.

Total 159,242 aircraft movements were recorded at Velana International Airport in 2018. The number includes 23,820 international aircraft movements and 135,422 domestic aircraft movements.

The records also show Velana International Airport processed 22,280 international scheduled flight operations and 130,755 transit passengers in 2018.

 

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