Record flyers, flights at Mumbai, Bengaluru airports in 2023-24, beat pre-Covid numbers
Finally, annual passenger traffic at the big city airports of Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru and Hyderabad has soared past the peaks attained before Covid struck and air travel went into a spiral.
But when it comes to air traffic or the number of flights operated to and from an airport, only Mumbai and Bengaluru have managed to cross the pre-Covid numbers, shows data released by the Airports Authority of India.
The data also revealed that for the third straight year, Mumbai airport registered the highest year-on-year passenger traffic growth among Indian metro airports. From April 2023 to March 2024, Mumbai handled about 5.3 crore flyers, a 20% jump.
