Domestic air passenger traffic jumps 33.6% MoM in October: DGCA

19 Nov 2020 Evaluate

Data from industry regulator DGCA has showed that Domestic air traffic jumped by 33.67 percent month-on-month in October 2020, continuing on a gradual but steady rebound after flights resumed in May after the lockdown. It showed that 52.71 lakh people took to the air in October, compared to 39.43 lakh in September. The growth rate in September was a tad higher at 39 percent.

However, Year-on-year the numbers are still lower and were down 57.2 percent from October 2019. At the same time, the drop was less steep. In September, year-on-year traffic declined by 65.82 percent. For the year till October, the industry saw a total of 4.93 crore passengers, a drop of 58.27 percent from the same period a year ago.

Domestic flights had resumed on May 25, after they had been suspended in end-March owing to the COVID-19 pandemic. Since then, the latest data from the Ministry of Civil Aviation shows that flights have reached 60 percent of their pre-COVID-19 levels. Passenger traffic is now about half of the earlier level.

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