400 mn fliers by FY24, airports to get Rs 1-trn investment, says Scindia
Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia on Wednesday said the airline sector is on a revival mode — with 382,000 passengers travelling daily in the last seven days — and hoped that the total passenger traffic will rise to 400 million by 2023-24.
The number of air passengers was 145 million in 2018-19. The traffic fell to 83.8 million in 2021 due to the pandemic.
Replying to the Demands for Grants, 2022-23, for the Ministry of Civil Aviation, Scindia further said Rs 1 trillion of investments will be made in green and brownfield airports in the country in the next 2-3 years by both Airports Authority of India (AAI) and the private sector.
