As festivities begin, domestic air passenger traffic surges in September

With the fall of coronavirus cases and with festivities ahead, India’s domestic air passenger traffic grew marginally by 2-3 per cent at around 69 lakh in September, credit ratings agency Icra said in a release on Wednesday. This comes as domestic flights operated at a higher capacity at 54 per cent in September 2021 over the same month last year.

However, this has also fuelled a greater risk of the third wave of Covid-19 infections, the Indian Centre of Medical Research (ICMR) worried and advised against “revenge travel”.

“Taking this into consideration, the third-wave peak can increase by up to 47 percent during the holiday season and can occur two weeks earlier compared to a scenario of easing restrictions in the absence of holiday travel,”