For the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic struck in early 2020, over four lakh passengers traveled in domestic flights on Sunday. This is the highest ever after reopening of economy and flight operations. This is also showing signs of a strong revival of the aviation sector. International traffic has also shown signs of recovery with 1,77,653 airport footfalls, 63,603 departing passengers and 54,050 arriving passengers.
According to the Ministry of Civil Aviation data, the airlines carried 407,975 passengers on 2,838 flights which amount to about 95.5 percent of pre-COVID daily domestic air passenger traffic .The data showed that in the domestic traffic category, there were 7,99,957 airport footfalls, 5,672 aircraft movements, and 3,91,982 arriving passengers.
