Kolkata: For Kolkata Airport, the second pandemic year was far more unobtrusive than the first year when there was no passenger flight for two months restricted a handful of special repatriation services.
The passenger count in 2021 rose 18% more than 2020, substantial growth despite the second and third wave which weakened at the end of 2021 when the airport looked almost quiet when the passenger numbers fell.
If the initial development in 2022 is something that must be passed, Kolkata airport must rise again with a domestic trip to be taken from this summer.
But a larger difference can be an international journey with the UAE, countries in Europe and the US eliminate restrictions on trips and state covid endemics.
Thailand also initiated the tourist entry program “test and left in 2021, up from 94.6 people lakh in 2020.
The advantages were mostly in front of the domestic with international flights scheduled not to get headlights.
While the number of domestic passengers increased 24% when traveling The company and recreation that was revived, international travel fell by almost 58% with several countries announcing strict travel sidewalks after the deadly Delta variant in April-May and then omicron turned off at the end of December.
As a result, 1,485 fewer international flights operated on In 2021 of 2020 when there were 9,238 flights even though there was no international flight for three months before Vande Bharat flight patriation and those operating under the bubble agreement between India and other countries were introduced.
However, the number of domestic flights increased by 26% from I 74,284 in 2020 to 93,236 flights in 2021.
Overall, the number of flights increased from 83,522 to 1,00,989, an increase of 21%.
Strangely, the number of passengers per flight fell from 113.3 by 2020 to 110.3 in 2021.
This was mainly due to a drastic decline in international flights that fell from 71.9 passengers per flight in 2021.
At the domestic amount, residence remained almost unchanged with 118.9 passengers per flight in 2021 against 118.8 passengers per flight in 2020.
Airport officers said this was mainly due to prolonged restrictions on flights operated between the Gulf and India so far the second wave was when the plane took passengers to India But flying back almost empty because countries have imposed restrictions on people who leave India.
“The count of infection slowly recedes, and we hope that the travel industry will rise again in the aviation sector,” said Anil Punjabi, the leadership travel agent (east) of the Indian Federation.
Rahul Wadhwa, Chair of the Airlines Operator Committee (AOC), said that in 2021 had shown them how passenger movements were immediately immediately with the fall of the infection curve and they hoped for repetitions in 2022 too.