Changi Airport sees record 70 million passengers in 2025

Government resumed mega terminal plans after post-COVID aviation rebound

Changi Airport sets all-time high with 70 million passengers in 2025, surpassing pre-Covid-19 levels, said Acting Transport Minister Jeffrey Siow during The T5 In The Making exhibition.

The approximately 70 million passengers beat the 68.3 million accounted for in 2019 before the Covid-19 pandemic severely affected air travel.

Plans to build the mega terminal were halted during the pandemic with the uncertainty of future air travel.

“For a moment, we were not sure what the future of aviation would hold. And we reconsidered deeply whether to continue with T5,” said Siow.

“The strong post-COVID recovery for global aviation shows that we made absolutely the right decision (to continue with T5).”, he added.

But the government decided to go ahead, added Siow, and the future now looks bright – global air traffic is expected to double by 2050, with the Asia-Pacific region leading this growth.

For the first 10 months of 2025, Changi Airport's passenger traffic was up 4.2% year on year.

In air cargo, Changi’s top markets were China, the US, Australia, Hong Kong, and India.

The new mega terminal – scheduled to open in the mid-2030s – will show the way for aviation sustainability, as it will promote the use of sustainable aviation fuel and be fully electrified, he said.

T5 will raise Changi Airport’s passenger capacity by more than 55% each year to 140 million from the current 90 million, according to Siow.

Passengers at T5 can expect to reach Terminal 2 in four minutes via the airport’s new underground link. The people-mover system – similar to the existing Skytrain, which serves Terminals 1, 2 and 3 – will operate at a frequency of four to eight minutes.

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