Mumbai airport handles 47 domestic flights after services resume

As Mumbai airport resumed restricted flight services on Monday, a total of 47 flights took off from and landed at the T2 terminal at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport. The airport handled a total of 4,852 passengers, 3,752 departing and 1,100 arriving passengers from 14 places across the country.

According to airport officials, the highest number of departures was to New Delhi. The first flight that departed from the airport after the lifting of the ban on domestic flights on Monday morning was for Patna at 6.45 am, while the first flight to arrive was from Lucknow at 7.44 am.

Though airlines have been allowed to operate at 80 per cent of an aircraft’s seating capacity, the first flight to land from Lucknow, an IndiGo Airlines flight, had just 33 passengers.