
Passengers line up for check-in at Incheon Worldwide Airport’s Terminal 1 departure corridor, Jan. 23, forward of the Lunar New Yr vacation. Yonhap
Greater than 2 million passengers are anticipated to journey by way of Incheon Worldwide Airport throughout this 12 months’s Lunar New Yr holidays, knowledge confirmed Saturday.
From Saturday to Feb. 2, the airport expects over 1.04 million outbound vacationers and greater than 1.09 million inbound vacationers, based on knowledge from Incheon Worldwide Airport Corp. submitted to Rep. Jeong Yong-gi of the principle opposition Democratic Celebration of Korea.
The airport expects a every day common of round 214,000 passengers throughout the interval, up 12.8 % from final 12 months’s Lunar New Yr.
The variety of airport vacationers is forecast to peak this Saturday with round 227,725.
The vacation was initially set to final solely three days, as this 12 months’s Lunar New Yr’s Day falls subsequent Wednesday, however the authorities designated Monday as a short lived nationwide vacation, extending the vacation to 6 days. (Yonhap)