More than one crore passengers flown since resumption of domestic operations: Hardeep Singh Puri

More than one crore passengers have flown on over one lakh flights since resumption of domestic operations on 25th of May this year.

Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said that domestic aviation is moving towards pre-COVID figures. He congratulated all stakeholders on achieving this milestone in India’s journey towards creating an Aatma Nirbhar Bharat.

 

The Minister said, total number of departing passengers on Thursday was over one lakh ninteen thousand and



total number of arriving passengers during this period was over one lakh twenty one thousand. He added that total departures were 1393 whereas arrivals were 1394 taking the total number of movements of flights to 2787. Further, the total number of passenger footfalls at airports across the country was over two lakh forty thousand a single day.

In the wake of Covid-19, the operations of domestic schedule commercial airlines were ceased from 25th March this year.