Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri confident of air travel reaching pre-Covid-19 levels by year-end or early 2021

Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Monday expressed confidence that air travel would reach pre- levels by the end of the year or early next year.

“We opened civil aviation on May 25, a good two months and two days after we have completely locked down…..with 30,000 passengers on a day.

Two days or three days ago, I think just before Diwali, we carried 225,000 and with a scale at which we are opening up in a calibrated manner, we have already opened up 70 per cent capacity,” he said.

He said he has told his colleagues to look at 80 per cent.