REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, DENPASAR -- The Ngurah Rai International Airport in Bali served 2,235 international flights in July 2015, an increase of 5.77 percent from 2,113 in the previous month.

The number of passengers also surged 6.4 percent from 370,231 in June to 393,929 in July 2015, Panusunan Siregar, the head of the Bali Central Bureau of Statistics, noted here, Wednesday.

From July to early August 2015, Bali airport was forced to temporary shut down due to the eruption of Mount Raung located in East Java.

The volume of baggage from the Ngurah Rai airport to international destinations was up by 2.57 percent from 5,735 tons in June to 5,883 tons in July this year.

The number of foreign tourists visiting Bali in July reached 382,683, up 5.99 percent compared to the same period last year, or 6.39 percent from June 2015.

General Manager of PT Angkasa Pura I branch of Ngurah Rai International Airport Trikora Harjo earlier stated that his office has always tried to improve its services as the airport is one of the main entry gates into Indonesia.

In an Airport Service Quality Survey (ASQ) conducted by the Airport Council International (ACI), Bali's Ngurah Rai International Airport ranked third, with Gimpo Airport in Seoul, South Korea, and Wuhan Tianhe in China, respectively grabbing the first and second spots.

The ranking given for Q1 of 2015 saw Bali's air gateway coming third worldwide among the airports serving between 15 and 25 million passengers annually.

Bali managed to rank higher than Kansai Airport in Japan, Auckland Airport in New Zealand, San Diego Airport in the United States, Helsinki-Vantaa Airport in Finland, and Brisbane Airport in Australia.

The same survey conducted for Q4 of 2014 saw Ngurah Rai ranking seventh in the same category of airports.

A review is conducted on a total of 30 airports internationally in the category for handling between 15 and 25 million tourists annually.

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