Kolkata: Different from the second wave, when the number of leaflets takes into a Covid case soaring, which sweeps the third wave has not acted as a deterrent to air travelers.
In the period of one month between mid-December 2021 and mid-January 2022, Kolkata Airport had recorded five times the number of passengers had been recorded in May 2021, when the second wave was at its peak.
While only 2.5 passengers lakh had traveled during May 2021 when the second wave reached its peak, 12.6 passengers traveled on 31 days during the third wave.
Representatives from the travel trading community said flights and travel agents were petrified when Covid’s case began shooting in mid-December and passengers detected with Omicron variants in the country initially.
But they are cured by the passenger figure.
“During the second wave of pandemic, flights must reduce flights as council counts have fallen.
This time, more than twice the number of flights has been operating from Kolkata.
However, the load on flights is more than double the second wave, “said an airline official.
Against 4,367 flights operating on the moon during the second wave, 9833 flights were operated in a period of months during the third wave.
Rahul Wadhwa, Chair of the Airlines’ Operator Committee at Kolkata Airport, said it was the severity of infection and a high mortality rate during the second wave that had been driven in the person’s room, for fear of contracting the virus.
“Even though more people are infected at this time, that fear is not present as the majority of patients also recover quickly without the need for hospitalization,” Wadhwa said.
A senior official at Kolkata Airport showed that passenger footsteps that fell almost 40% but mainly due to flight restrictions from two high-density sectors: Delhi-Kolkata and Mumbai-Kolkata.
“It’s the majority of the population of vaccinated adults and those who are infected with recovering in less than a week have increased tourist trust,” the official said.
The Federation Travel Agency of the Indian (East) of Anil Punjabi, who had almost fallen window for 45 days during the second wave, said the uncertainty lasted almost four-five days in the initial period of the third wave, when the number of new cases was doubled every 24 hours, He told me.
“During the second wave, people canceled the travel plan.
The mood has become a gloomy with severe illness and death in the family.
This time, it’s as usual, “Punjabi said.
Manav Soni, chairman (east) of the Association of travel agents from India, felt the situation had reversed as people seemed to be willing to travel now but were hampered by the absence of flights.
“Europe, the United States, the United Kingdom and the UAE have opened.
Thailand and Singapore are set to open.
We are in the middle of the third wave but does not affect the mind.
Unknown fear is no longer there.
Who speaks the volume of how we have come to stay with Covid and continue, “he said.