Domestic air traffic reached an “all-time high” of 4,56,082 passengers in a single day. Civil aviation minister Jyotiraditya Scindia cited the ballooning passenger figure as evidence of the nation’s expanding affluence.
After being badly impacted by the coronavirus pandemic, domestic air traffic in the nation has been on a recovery path for several months. In a tweet from yesterday, the civil aviation ministry stated that “Indian domestic air travel hits new high, surpassing pre-Covid Average.” According to information from the ministry, 2,978 flights carried 4,56,082 people in total on April 30. The statement read, “India’s domestic air traffic reaches new heights with an all-time high!” The average daily domestic passenger count before Covid was 3,98,579. Scindia said in a tweet that the nation’s civil aviation industry is breaking records every day.
Domestic airlines carried 128.93 lakh passengers in March, up 21.4 percent from the same month last year. According to the most recent data from the aviation watchdog DGCA, the airlines transported 375. 04 lakh passengers between January and March.
