{"id":422625,"date":"2021-06-26T10:05:38","date_gmt":"2021-06-26T04:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=422625"},"modified":"2021-06-26T10:27:44","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T04:57:44","slug":"covid-19-impact-passenger-traffic-at-bengaluru-airport-records-66-decline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/covid-19-impact-passenger-traffic-at-bengaluru-airport-records-66-decline\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19 impact: Passenger traffic at Bengaluru airport records 66% decline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an unprecedented observation, the Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) in Bengaluru reported a decline in passenger traffic by 66 per cent during the financial year 2020-21, especially due to the travel curbs and lockdown-related crises that arose since the Covid-19 pandemic set in. <\/p>\n<p>The airport, which managed to record 32.3 million passengers in the previous financial year (2019-20), could welcome only 10.91 million passengers since domestic air travel resumed in India on May 25, 2020, following a two-month suspension. <\/p>\n<p>As per statistics shared by the Bengaluru International Airport Limited (BIAL), 10.45 million passengers flew domestic routes, recording a 63% drop, as compared to 27 million in FY 2019-20. International routes witnessed 4 million passengers in 2019-20 \u2013 the passenger footfall, however, declined substantially to 0.46 million in 2020-21, indicating a decline of 90%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an unprecedented observation, the Kempegowda International Airport (KIA) in Bengaluru reported a decline in passenger traffic by 66 per cent during the financial year 2020-21, especially due to the travel curbs and lockdown-related crises that arose since the Covid-19 pandemic set in. The airport, which managed to record 32.3 million passengers in the previous financial year (2019-20), could welcome only 10.91 million passengers since domestic air travel resumed in India on May 25, 2020, following a two-month suspension. As per statistics shared by the Bengaluru International Airport Limited (BIAL), 10.45 million passengers flew domestic routes, recording a 63% drop, [&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":[130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-422625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422625","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=422625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}