Covid effect: Passenger traffic at Bangalore airport down by 66%

MUMBAI: Bengaluru airport which had handled a record 32 million passengers in FY 2019-20, witnessed a pandemic-led drop of 66% in traffic during FY 2020-21, said the Bangalore International Airport Ltd (BIAL) in a press statement issued on Friday.

The airport handled only about 11 million passengers since domestic air travel resumed in India on May 25 last year following a two-month suspension.

The impact of Covid second wave was apparent, the airport had registered the highest single day (since May 25, 2020) passenger traffic of 69,421 on February 13, this year. Had the Covid second wave not hit weeks later, the airport would have recorded a higher passenger traffic in March.