Ongoing festive season as well as easing Covid travel restrictions accelerated India’s domestic air passenger traffic growth by over 79 per cent in September on a year-on-year basis.
Pent-up demand and low base too pushed the air passenger numbers higher during the month under review.
According to the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), the country’s scheduled domestic flight operations ferried 70.66 lakh passengers last month.
In September 2020, the traffic numbers stood at 39.43 lakh.
Domestic flight services had resumed on May 25, 2020 after the suspension of operations caused by the Covid-19 pandemic in end-March.
