MAHB said the traffic growth was driven by its Malaysian operations, which saw a 5% increase in passengers, while SGIA continued to decline year-on-year after unforeseen events in Turkey. "The unforeseen recent events in Turkey [have] a dampening impact on passenger traffic performance at SGIA. According to its passenger snapshot for August, year-to-date traffic growth, including SGIA, was recorded as 4.2% at 77.38 million compared to 74.26 million a year ago. However, klia2's passenger traffic dropped 7.4% to 2.1 million from 2.3 million in August 2015, said MAHB. "These airlines experienced passenger traffic increases in the range of 12% to 90% compared to August 2015.

Source: The Edge Markets September 13, 2016 12:22 UTC