Mumbai: India\u2019s domestic passenger traffic has dropped 37% since January 1, with less than two lakh people flying daily, which takes the traffic back to the volumes handled in July last year.
\nAn estimated 30% drop in air passengers is expected in the final quarter of this fiscal, according to aviation observers.
\nOn January 11 \u2013 a Tuesday, usually the leanest day of the week \u2013 the daily traffic dipped to 1.8 lakh, shows ministry of civil aviation data. It\u2019s a huge drop when compared to the traffic seen in the past two months. From November 6, 2021 to January 3, over 3 lakh domestic passengers boarded flights every single day.
\n\u201cAn analysis of traffic data of top four private airports \u2013 Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru and Hyderabad \u2013 which accounted for about 90% of air traffic handled by private airports and about 50% of all passenger traffic last fiscal, indicates that Omicron could push air traffic recovery into fiscal 2024,\u201d said credit rating company CRISIL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Mumbai: India\u2019s domestic passenger traffic has dropped 37% since January 1, with less than two lakh people flying daily, which takes the traffic back to the volumes handled in July last year. An estimated 30% drop in air passengers is expected in the final quarter of this fiscal, according to aviation observers. On January 11 \u2013 a Tuesday, usually the leanest day of the week \u2013 the daily traffic dipped to 1.8 lakh, shows ministry of civil aviation data. It\u2019s a huge drop when compared to the traffic seen in the past two months. From November 6, 2021 to January […]<\/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-461722","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\/461722","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=461722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}