Steady growth in domestic air travel: Puri

Puri noted that the Saturday figures were a great improvement on the 30,000 fliers, who boarded flights on May 25, after two months of suspension of air travel since March 25 following the outbreak of coronavirus disease in the country.

“Domestic operations began with about 30,000 flyers on 25th May. On July 4, we crossed the 75K mark which indicates a slow & steady rise in number of domestic flyers,” Puri’s tweeted. Puri noted the steady increase in traffic and stated that a total of 1,560 domestic flights were operated on July 4 carrying 76,104 fliers. The footfalls at airports had also increased to 1,53,547 on the day.

Puri’s tweet follows an attempt by his ministry to further remove impediments to domestic air travel by easing the attached conditions.