New Delhi : Indian airports Nearly 14.26 million passengers were catered for in August, a 35% increase sequentially, highlighting the continued improvement in demand for air travel in line with economic recovery and progress on vaccination.
NS airports It served about 10.53 million passengers in July, according to the Airports Authority of India (AAI) data.
International passenger traffic increased from 0.80 million in July to 1.29 million in August, while domestic traffic rose to 12.97 million from 9.73 million in that period.
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New Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru and Hyderabad were the top airports in terms of domestic traffic, while New Delhi, Mumbai, Kochi and Hyderabad were the busiest airports for international traffic during August, the data showed.
Over 26 lakh domestic passengers arrived at New Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport in August, up from nearly 20 lakh in July. Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport recorded around 1.4 million domestic passengers in August, up from nearly 1 million in the previous month.
Bengaluru’s Kempegowda International Airport and Hyderabad’s Rajiv Gandhi International Airport registered 1.18 million and 934,676 domestic passengers respectively in August, up from 878,823 and 687,636 passengers in the previous month.
Scheduled airlines in India were allowed to sell up to 72.5% of their pre-Covid capacity on domestic flights in August. This has been increased to 85% in September.
In terms of international passenger traffic, New Delhi airport recorded 398,722 passengers in August, up from 266,533 in July, while Mumbai recorded 184,787 passengers during the month, up from 101,203 in July.
In August, Kochi and Hyderabad airports registered 155,322 and 87,645 international passengers, respectively. These airports reported 84,587 and 54,375 international passengers, respectively, in July.
Scheduled international flights remain suspended until at least the end of September due to the pandemic, which is likely to go ahead. Only flights under the bilateral air bubble, which is a mechanism between India and other countries to resume flights with preconditions during the pandemic, are allowed to operate special and cargo flights. India has bilateral air bubble agreements with 28 countries including Bangladesh, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Maldives, Netherlands, UAE, UK and US.
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