100 days after flights resume, daily traffic rise to 30,000 passengers at KIA

Completing 100 days after the resumption of domestic flight operations, the Kempegowda International Airport recorded the highest single-day traffic of 29,950 passengers on August 30. The average daily traffic has gone up from 13,000 passengers to nearly 24,000 over the past week.

Domestic operations had resumed on May 25 after a Covid-induced lockdown. Over the last few weeks, the Vande Bharat mission flights from multiple countries, evacuation flights carrying foreigners from India, and the ‘Air Bubble’ flights had increased the Air Traffic Movements (ATMs). August 28 recorded the highest daily flight traffic with 305 ATMs.

Over the last 100 days, the airport had to perfect contactless processing for lakhs of passengers right from parking to boarding.