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Hyderabad Airport's daily passenger footfall jumps to 30,000
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SME Times News Bureau | 30 Nov, 2020
The daily passenger footfall at Hyderabad's Rajiv Gandhi International
Airport (RGIA) has crossed 30,000 in November, a 10-fold increase since
the re-commencement of domestic operations from May 25 after Covid-19
induced lockdown.
As the passenger footfall grows steadily and
confidence in air travel is rising, the worst has passed and the
operations are normalising, airport operator GMR Hyderabad International
Airport Ltd (GHIAL) said on Monday.
The number of domestic
passengers in a single day touched 37,000 mark recently, the highest
since the recommencement of domestic operations. The Air Traffic
Movements (ATMs) also crossed 284 mark in a single day during November.
The airport handled over three million domestic passengers from the day of recommencement till November 23.
"Crossing
the three million passenger mark is a testimony to the growing
passenger confidence in air travel. With the government allowing the
airlines to operate 70 per cent of their pre-Covid capacity, GMR
Hyderabad International Airport is all geared up for the safe travel of
passengers with many contact-less initiatives at the airport," a
spokesperson of the airport operator said.
"The concern of access
to RT-PCR test reports is also addressed with the recent launch of
Covid testing facility at the airport. With the steady increase in
traffic in line with Hyderabad's economic resurgence, we are hopeful
that we will soon reach the pre-Covid level in terms of operations," the
spokesperson added.
The airport has also seen uptick in the ATMs
from about 40 daily ATMs in the first few weeks of the restart, to over
260 domestic flights daily in November, a sixfold growth since
recommencement.
Over 35,000 domestic flights were handled from the day of recommencement till November 23.
The
airport was handling 550 air traffic movements and about 60,000
passengers daily before Covid-19 induced lockdown came into effect in
March.
The airport has regained its 51 destinations out of
pre-Covid 55 domestic destinations. With three new domestic destinations
- Kozhikode, Imphal and Jagdalpur, RGIA is now connected to 54
destinations in the domestic sector.
The top 5 destinations
during post-Covid remains the metro cities - Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai,
Bengaluru and Mumbai. Initially, the airport observed unidirectional
traffic due to pent-up demand but now the demand is gradually back both
ways.
The top 3 airlines who are serving the domestic traffic
from Hyderabad International Airport continues to be IndiGo, SpiceJet
and Air India.
GHIAL started an on-site coronavirus testing
laboratory at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA), giving
travellers the added facility for a safe journey. The facility ensures a
safe journey of all passengers entering the city, for all
international passengers.
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