{"id":423816,"date":"2021-07-02T12:41:20","date_gmt":"2021-07-02T07:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=423816"},"modified":"2021-07-02T12:41:20","modified_gmt":"2021-07-02T07:11:20","slug":"to-term-it-recovery-air-travel-demand-needs-to-hit-50-of-pre-covid-level-for-3-6-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/to-term-it-recovery-air-travel-demand-needs-to-hit-50-of-pre-covid-level-for-3-6-months\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;To term it recovery, air travel demand needs to hit 50% of pre-COVID level for 3-6 months&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Any uptick in air passenger volumes for just one month cannot be termed as &#8220;recovery&#8221; unless the demand touches 50-60 per cent of the pre-COVID-19 levels consistently for 3-6 months, according to a senior official of a private airport operator. Moreover, the convergence of arrival and departure load factors is also a key factor in determining the recovery, as it reflects a reasonable stability in the market and allows airline to rebuild the network as well, said Bangalore International Airport Ltd (BIAL) Chief Development and Strategy Officer Satyaki Raghunath.<\/p>\n<p>The Bengaluru airport, which used to handle around one lakh passengers a day including 15,000-17,000 international passengers, averaged around 12,800 domestic passengers a day till the third week of June, he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Any uptick in air passenger volumes for just one month cannot be termed as &#8220;recovery&#8221; unless the demand touches 50-60 per cent of the pre-COVID-19 levels consistently for 3-6 months, according to a senior official of a private airport operator. Moreover, the convergence of arrival and departure load factors is also a key factor in determining the recovery, as it reflects a reasonable stability in the market and allows airline to rebuild the network as well, said Bangalore International Airport Ltd (BIAL) Chief Development and Strategy Officer Satyaki Raghunath. The Bengaluru airport, which used to handle around one lakh passengers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"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-423816","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\/423816","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\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}