After almost two months, commercial flight operations began in Mumbai on Monday morning, with the departure and arrival of 47 flights at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport (CSMIA). The first flight left for Patna at 6.45am, while a flight from Lucknow was the first arrival at 8.20am. Both the flights were operated by IndiGo.<\/p>\n
Mumbai airport, which used to handle 950 flights daily, has been shut from March 25, except for evacuation and Covid-related cargo operations. Of the 47 flights, eleven flights were operated to and from Delhi. The rest were either to\/from or both to Kochi, Hyderabad, Varanasi, Bangalore, Patna, Calicut, Diu, Lucknow, Nagpur, Chandigarh, Gorakhpur, Allahabad and Jaipur. A total of 4,852 passengers (3,752 departing passengers and 1,100 arriving passengers) were flown to and from the airport on Monday. The highest passenger load was seen on the departure to Delhi route. Senior airport officials said the airport also handled a few non-scheduled flights, Vande Bharat and cargo flights, taking the total number of flights operated to 84.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
After almost two months, commercial flight operations began in Mumbai on Monday morning, with the departure and arrival of 47 flights at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport (CSMIA). The first flight left for Patna at 6.45am, while a flight from Lucknow was the first arrival at 8.20am. Both the flights were operated by IndiGo. Mumbai airport, which used to handle 950 flights daily, has been shut from March 25, except for evacuation and Covid-related cargo operations. Of the 47 flights, eleven flights were operated to and from Delhi. The rest were either to\/from or both to Kochi, Hyderabad, Varanasi, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-353323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}