Airlines expect passenger traffic to go up to 60%-65% during the festive season of Dussehra and Diwali in October-November, the Chief Marketing Officer for SpiceJet said at the HT Tourism Conclave, while stressing that the airline and tourism industries remain the worst affected by the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n
The capacity on domestic flight remains at around 45% of pre-Covid levels at the moment, Debojo Maharishi said. \u201cAs far as business is concerned, the first two to three months there was a lot of apprehension about travel, but we see that getting better with each day. We are using more flights and we are at almost 45% of our pre-Covid level. By the festive season we expect it to be close to 60-65%. In terms of goods we are doing close to 75%, I expect it to reach 80-85% very soon,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The Centre has allowed about 60% capacity utilisation on domestic routes after the resumption of flights on May 25 with strict safety norms following the two-month blanket suspension since the first lockdown was announced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Airlines expect passenger traffic to go up to 60%-65% during the festive season of Dussehra and Diwali in October-November, the Chief Marketing Officer for SpiceJet said at the HT Tourism Conclave, while stressing that the airline and tourism industries remain the worst affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. The capacity on domestic flight remains at around 45% of pre-Covid levels at the moment, Debojo Maharishi said. \u201cAs far as business is concerned, the first two to three months there was a lot of apprehension about travel, but we see that getting better with each day. We are using more flights and […]<\/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-375669","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\/375669","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=375669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}