Domestic airlines flew 409,831 passengers on Sunday, highest since May 2020
Domestic airlines carried 409,831 passengers on Sunday – the highest since flights were resumed in May 2020. This is nearly 95 per cent of pre-Covid figure.
In fact, the weekend saw air traffic cross 400,000 on the two consecutive days on domestic routes, which was again a first in the past two-and-a-half years. On Saturday, airlines flew 405,963 passengers.
According to the civil aviation ministry, airlines operated 2,739 domestic flights on Sunday. Go First achieved the highest seat occupancy of 96.7 per cent, followed by SpiceJet and Air India, which registered over 95 per cent loads each.
The upswing in air traffic comes before the Christmas-New Year holidays, which is a busy period for the tourism sector.
