{"id":370847,"date":"2020-08-31T11:36:17","date_gmt":"2020-08-31T06:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=370847"},"modified":"2020-08-31T11:36:17","modified_gmt":"2020-08-31T06:06:17","slug":"delhis-igi-airport-expects-73-decline-in-traffic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/delhis-igi-airport-expects-73-decline-in-traffic\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi&#8217;s IGI Airport expects 73% decline in traffic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: IGI Airport is staring at a 73% fall in traffic this financial year with an expected total passenger number of 1.8 crore \u2014 down from 6.7 crore in the April 2019-March 2020 period.<\/p>\n<p>Delhi International Airport Ltd (DIAL), which manages Indira Gandhi International Airport, now estimates the post-Covid recovery in air travel only by the financial year 2023-24, when it expects 7.3 crore flyers.<\/p>\n<p>DIAL has submitted its revised passenger numbers to Airports Economic Regulatory Authority in response to a consultation paper issued by the latter for determining tariff for April 2019-March 2024. While international passengers in 2020-21 (April to March) are expected to be 33 lakh \u2014 down 82% from 1.7 crore in the previous fiscal, the domestic count is likely to hover around 1.5 crore \u2014 a fall of 70% from almost 5 crore in 2019-20. One of IGIA\u2019s three runways is being used as a storage for grounded planes since March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: IGI Airport is staring at a 73% fall in traffic this financial year with an expected total passenger number of 1.8 crore \u2014 down from 6.7 crore in the April 2019-March 2020 period. Delhi International Airport Ltd (DIAL), which manages Indira Gandhi International Airport, now estimates the post-Covid recovery in air travel only by the financial year 2023-24, when it expects 7.3 crore flyers. DIAL has submitted its revised passenger numbers to Airports Economic Regulatory Authority in response to a consultation paper issued by the latter for determining tariff for April 2019-March 2024. While international passengers in 2020-21 [&hellip;]<\/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":[192,130,136],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-370847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370847","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=370847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}