Passenger inconvenience at key airports in the country is likely to abate only by the first week of January after the holiday season ends, as the record number of air passengers over the past ten days has been one of the key contributors to congestion.
Domestic daily passengers in the country have been over 4,00,000 for the last ten days and hit a peak of over 4,28,000 on December 11 — this is not just the highest passenger number post-Covid, but the highest in India.
The earlier peak was 4,20,000 passengers, which the country witnessed before Covid impacted air travel in March 2020. For the first time this year daily domestic passenger numbers have consistently stayed over 4,00,000 mark, however, fliers stayed in the range of 3,50,000 to 3,75,000 for most of the days this year.
