The city airport clocked 100 flights on Sunday, a record since services resumed after the Covid-induced closure in March.
“One hundred domestic flights took off from the city and an equal number landed on Sunday. In all, around 28,000 passengers travelled,” an official at the airport said. On May 28, the day services resumed after the lockdown, 11 flights had taken off and a similar number arrived. About 3,000 passengers had travelled through the airport that day.
On Sunday, 16,350 passengers took flights out of Calcutta and 11,727 passengers arrived.
As the number of passengers has started increasing, lounges, bars, food courts and retail stores at the terminal are opening up and their business has started picking up, officials said.
