Miri Airport Visitor Traffic (2006 - July 2010)
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admin - Sun, 07/19/2015 - 13:08
The Miri Non-International Airport visitor traffic from 2006 until July 2010. Miri Airport is still the third busiest airport after Kota Kinabalu International Airport and Kuala Lumpur International Airport. Every day, there are an average of 110 flights going in and out at the non-international airport.
| Year | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 (Jan-July) |
| Arrivals at Miri Airport | 1,596,595 | 1,481,360 | 1,541,127 | 1,610,000 | about 1,000,000 |
Source: Miri Daily
My take:
It seems that there are plans for an 'extension' of the Miri Non-International Airport terminal yet again and a budget for this is being evaluated. With such minor traffic increase (see above table) since 2006, it seems as if the 'extension' is not to ease the traffic, but rather a 'fix' to right all the design flaws brought by the terminal 'rebuild' in 2003.
In the 1920s, these were the years when the Miri field began to decline. Exploration was carried out further and further afield. In 1926 an exploratory team had gone as far as Padang Barawa between the Sungai Seria and Sungai Barawa. Not much attention was paid to their findings then, but now with the Miri field declining the old maps and charts were taken out and studied again.