Incheon: More than 210,000 passengers traveled through Incheon International Airport per day during this year’s eight-day Chuseok holiday period, marking the highest daily average for the holiday, data showed Sunday.
According to Yonhap News Agency, an average of 217,613 travelers used the airport from Oct. 2-9, up 6.4 percent from the same period a year ago, based on data compiled by the airport. A total of 1.74 million passengers used South Korea’s main gateway airport, located west of Seoul, during the period.
The figure represents the highest daily average for the Chuseok holiday since the airport’s opening in 2001 and is the second highest among all holiday periods, following the record daily average of 219,026 logged during this year’s Lunar New Year holiday, the airport reported.
By region, 448,081 people traveled to and from Southeast Asia, with Japan following at 431,827 and China at 296,168, the data indicated.