MUMBAI: Mumbai airport witnessed an 83% drop in passenger traffic and 71% in flight movement between April-December 2020, compared to the same period in 2019. Mumbai witnessed the worst decline among major and even smaller airports in India.
\nDelhi airport saw a 75% decline in passenger traffic (domestic and international), while Bangalore and Hyderabad had 75% and 72% drops respectively, according to data released by Airports Authority of India.
\nExpectedly, decrease in flight movement was higher for Mumbai, compared to other airports. While Mumbai saw a drop of 71% in flight movement in April-December 2020 compared to the same period in 2019, for other major airports the decline was lower. Delhi airport was 62%, Bangalore 60 % and Hyderabad 61%. But the numbers are improving.
\nFlight volumes and passenger traffic have, however, been on a steady rise. The drop in flights (domestic and international) in December 2020 compared to December 2019 for Mumbai was 44%. It is an improvement over numbers for November, which was a drop of 50% and October, which was a decline of 60% and for September it was 68%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
MUMBAI: Mumbai airport witnessed an 83% drop in passenger traffic and 71% in flight movement between April-December 2020, compared to the same period in 2019. Mumbai witnessed the worst decline among major and even smaller airports in India. Delhi airport saw a 75% decline in passenger traffic (domestic and international), while Bangalore and Hyderabad had 75% and 72% drops respectively, according to data released by Airports Authority of India. Expectedly, decrease in flight movement was higher for Mumbai, compared to other airports. While Mumbai saw a drop of 71% in flight movement in April-December 2020 compared to the same period […]<\/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-397014","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\/397014","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=397014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}