Kolkata is a laggard in air traffic, figures provided by the Airports Authority of India (AAI) reveal.
Among the seven busiest airports in the country, Kolkata stands fifth in terms of the number of planes flying in and out.
The city comes after Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore and Hyderabad and is ahead of Chennai and Ahmedabad, according to the AAI data that the civil aviation minis-try has provided to Jawhar Sircar, Rajya Sabha member (Trinamul Congress) and former CEO of Prasar Bharati.
Sircar had sought to know from the ministry the annual number of air travellers in the last four fiscals and the estimate for the current fiscal, the number of flights operating per year for the last five years and the estimate for the current year,
