There has been an increase in the number of flights from and to the Mumbai airport with a decrease in Covid-19 cases. “In April end and May, the daily flights were reduced to around 150…around 350 flights are being operated now,” a Mumbai airport official said.
The airport would record around 960 flights daily before the pandemic. Flight movements picked up from around 150 per day between July and December to around 670 daily from January to March.
The second Covid-19 wave led to a drastic drop in air traffic as many countries banned flights to and from India.