{"id":408061,"date":"2021-03-31T09:16:59","date_gmt":"2021-03-31T03:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=408061"},"modified":"2021-03-31T09:50:15","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T04:20:15","slug":"16-airports-in-tier-2-3-4-towns-surpass-pre-covid-19-passenger-traffic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/16-airports-in-tier-2-3-4-towns-surpass-pre-covid-19-passenger-traffic\/","title":{"rendered":"16 airports in Tier 2, 3, 4 towns surpass pre-Covid-19 passenger traffic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In March 2020, the Government of India announced a lockdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic. In order to curtail the spread of the virus, all domestic flights were halted. It has now been 10 months since domestic travel resumed in India. <\/p>\n<p>According to the Airports Authority of India (AAI), 5.35 crore people have travelled on about 5 lakh flights since the resumption of flight operations, pegging traffic back at pre-Covid-19 levels <\/p>\n<p>However, since February 2021, the country has seen a resurgence in Covid-19 cases and this has impacted passenger traffic, according to data shared by the AAI. Although metro cities have seen reduced amounts of passengers, tier 2, 3 and 4 cities have been outliers. <\/p>\n<p>In January, 14 cities and now in March, 16 cities have surpassed their pre-Covid-19 passenger traffic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In March 2020, the Government of India announced a lockdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic. In order to curtail the spread of the virus, all domestic flights were halted. It has now been 10 months since domestic travel resumed in India. According to the Airports Authority of India (AAI), 5.35 crore people have travelled on about 5 lakh flights since the resumption of flight operations, pegging traffic back at pre-Covid-19 levels However, since February 2021, the country has seen a resurgence in Covid-19 cases and this has impacted passenger traffic, according to data shared by the AAI. Although metro cities [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[176,146,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-408061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408061","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}