Dabolim air traffic monthly data since April 2006

I have created an excel spreadsheet with monthly data for Dabolim International Airport from the Monthly traffic Reports available on the AAI website. You can view it here. I will update this with more monthly data as and when it is available.

Some takeaways for Goa :

1. The peak traffic of 13,688 passengers seen in Jan 2013 is equivalent to only around 5 hours of peak traffic for the new terminal. Therefore, we can reasonably expect the new terminal to handle a doubling of air traffic at Dabolim - 8 hours of peak traffic and the rest spread through off-peak times. Remember, the ICAO Report stated that neither the runway nor the cargo load projections acts as any constraint on capacity at Dabolim.
2. Domestic traffic is an increasingly important part of the overall traffic. Projections that Mopa will see extraordinary international traffic isn't borne out by the data.
3. Domestic traffic is much smoother - it doesn't dip very much in the monsoons. This is not the case for international traffic, and represents a missed opportunity for Goa tourism.
4. Passengers per flight (movement) is much more variable for the international traffic. Presumably, this reflects the fact that 747s are used only for the tourist season.
5. International cargo shows a correlation with the tourism season, indicating that charters are taking on cargo also.

Please put any requests for additional analysis or charts, or observations on the data in the comments below.

Update : Spreadsheet updated till March 2013.

Update 18-Nov-2014 : Spreadsheet updated till September 2014.