The COVID-19 pandemic might have hit the aviation sector badly, but the Economic Survey for 2020-21 has said that air passenger travel and aircraft movements are set to reach pre-COVID level in early 2021 as a result of swift and decisive interventions and effective measures put in place by the government.
The survey has also estimated that the fleet strength of airlines, which was 669 by the end of 2020 fiscal, will increase to 713 by the end of the current fiscal. Most of the airlines have planned to add more aircrafts into their fleet during the course of the year.
