NEW DELHI: Domestic air passenger traffic crashed to about 20 lakh passengers in May, down 67% sequentially, due to the vicious second surge in covid-19 infections in the country, credit rating agency Icra said on Thursday.
The May passenger traffic was also lower than the numbers registered during June-July 2020, when a two-month nationwide stringent lockdown was lifted by the government.
Airlines’ capacity deployment for May was lower by 54-55% compared to April 2021 (about 27,700 departures in May 2021, against about 60,300 departures in April 2021), indicating a fall in demand, stemming from people’s unwillingness to travel amid the pandemic, the report said.
