Mumbai Airport sees 27% rise in passenger traffic to London in FY20

MUMBAI: GVK-AAI run Mumbai Airport said on Tuesday passenger traffic to London from Mumbai is expected to rise about 27 per cent this fiscal following the resumption of services on the route by the Virgin Atlantic last Sunday.

The British carrier, which stopped flying to India’s financial hub from London in January 2016, relaunched its non-stop daily flight services on the route from Oct 27 in a bid to capture demand in the wake of grounding of Jet AirwaysNSE 4.87 %.

Jet Airways had been operating three daily flights on the Mumbai-London route before ceasing all operations in April this year.