Covid-19 effect: Passenger traffic at Mumbai airport dipped by 73% last year
The Covid-19 pandemic that resulted in a complete shutdown of all air services for two months last year caused a steep fall in numbers at the country’s second largest airport, Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport (CSMIA), as per Airports Authority of India (AAI) data.
In the period between January-December 2020, passenger traffic dipped a massive 73% as compared to 2019. Passenger traffic last year was 8,016,456 against 29,521,918 in 2019, revealed the AAI data.
In the pre-Covid days, CSMIA got an average of 42,000 international passengers per day but this number fell to 18,000 by mid-March last year. Domestic traffic too dropped by 15-20%.
