Coimbatore: Passenger Traffic at Coimbatore International Airport, which began to walk up from last July to touch 50% ordinary movement, has continued due to the second Covid-19 wave.
With coimbatore struggling to control the case, passenger traffic fell 71.2% in one month and fell lower than July 2020.
This even though the airport continues to function every day.
The number of flights operated also fell 60.8%.
The number of passengers arriving and departing from the airport fell to 23,555 people in May due to the locks imposed throughout the country.
This was a decrease of 71.2% compared to 81,989 passengers seen by the airport in April.
In fact, April recorded a decline in traffic 31.1% compared to March, after cases began to increase and waves began in Maharashtra, New Delhi and Karnataka, and subsequent locking in these countries.
“After the vote was completed on April 6, people had fewer reasons to fly, come out and in the country,” said travel agent P K Ganesh of Express.
“Along with increasing cases in cities such as Bengaluru, New Delhi and Mumbai lead to people who do not risk travel.” After passenger traffic fell, the airline operated into the city began canceling flights.
District Begun enjoys flights from Madurai to Ahmedabad and one overcome flight to Kolkata.
The airport, which saw 1,106 landed and took off in March, saw a falling movement of 64.8% in two months.
The number of flights and passengers fell below last July.
Due for pandemic, from October to March, when cases of low cases, passenger traffic, which has increased to 1.28 lakh in January and February, only reaching 50% of ordinary traffic from 2.35 lakh people.
The number of flights, which reached 1,118, was also almost half of 2,056 flights operated in a month ago.airport Director R Mahingam, who claimed to be a difficult month, passenger traffic said in June has increased by more than 20.%.
“Once cases began to reduce and the government began to raise partial locking, the number of passengers began to increase.
After this happens, the flight will also increase,” he said.
“We expect passenger traffic to soar forward in the next few months.”