Air travel will return to pre-COVID levels by end of December, says Civil Aviation Minister

HYDERABAD: Air travel will return to pre-COVID levels by the end of December or by the beginning of 2021, Minister of Civil Aviation Hardeep Singh Puri said during the Indian School of Business’s Deccan Dialogue event on Monday.

Puri who was giving the valedictory dialogue at the event said, “We opened civil aviation on May 25 — 2 months and 2 days after the complete lockdown — with 30,000 passengers a day. Two days back, just before Diwali, we carried 2.25 lakh passengers.”