NEW DELHI: The first week of schedule domestic flight resumption saw 2.8 lakh people fly on aircrafts that were barely half full. Contrary to the belief that there will be a rush of stranded people, big airlines reported aircraft occupancy in the range of 44% to 57%.
\nDomestic flights were suspended on March 25 as part of the lockdown and allowed to resume at a one-third summer schedule level on May 25.
\nAccording to Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) data released on Tuesday, May 25-31 period saw 2.8 lakh domestic flyers. May 2019 (full month) had seen 1.2 crore domestic flyers. The two month suspension has led to a 43.4% fall in domestic flyers this January-May. The first five months of this year saw 3.3 crore domestic flyers, as opposed to 5.8 crore in the same period last year.
\nOn June 13, aviation minister H S Puri had tweeted that \u201cmore than 10 lakh people have now flown on more than 11,500 flights since domestic operations recommenced on May 25, 2020\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
NEW DELHI: The first week of schedule domestic flight resumption saw 2.8 lakh people fly on aircrafts that were barely half full. Contrary to the belief that there will be a rush of stranded people, big airlines reported aircraft occupancy in the range of 44% to 57%. Domestic flights were suspended on March 25 as part of the lockdown and allowed to resume at a one-third summer schedule level on May 25. According to Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) data released on Tuesday, May 25-31 period saw 2.8 lakh domestic flyers. May 2019 (full month) had seen 1.2 crore […]<\/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":[220,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-357868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357868","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=357868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}