NEW DELHI: Even the summit of Covid’s catastrophic second tide — May 2021 — watched the amount of national flyers decreasing to levels observed after scheduled flights were permitted to restart after a yearlong suspension this past year.
Based on DGCA statistics, 21.1 lakh individuals flew over the nation a month.
National flights had been suspended for 2 weeks from March 25 to May 24, 2020, throughout a year’s lockdown.
June and July, 2020, had visited 19.8 lakh and only over 21 lakh national flyers, respectively, based on DGCA data.
When the very first tide ebbed and everyday Covid cases began falling, national flights observed a increase in the amount of passengers with the summit of 78 lakh at one month being touched two in February and March, 2021.
Since the next wave resisted its ferocity, the figures dropped into 57 lakh in April then crashed into 21.1 lakh in May, 2021 — a figure found in the initial two months following national flights’ resumption on May 25, 2020.
Last month saw just 8,000 more national flyers compared to July 2020.