Jaipur: With Covid cases increase in the state, footsteps at Jaipur Airport have seen a stable decline of around 10,000 passengers every day since 1.
January officials claim that because of the surge of Corona, the average number of passengers every day, which is around 18,000 to Last month, it had diminished.
Apart from this because fewer crowds and weather conditions at least eight flights are canceled every day.
“Until December 31, we had ordinary traffic at the airport because it was a tourist season in the state.
However, from the beginning of this month, the number of flights operating every day was also reduced.
Previously around 58 operational flights, which are now reduced to 45.
On Saturday, many flights were canceled and only 38 operations due to cold weather conditions and fewer passengers.
The footsteps also reduced, “said Jaipur International Airport official.
Officials also claimed that many flights were diverted from Lucknow and Delhi to Jaipur because of the fog.
Jaipur International Airport is equipped with the second most advanced ILS system, CAT IIIB.
The IIIB CAT system allows aircraft compatible to the ground at a minimum of 50 meter night foundation visibility, which is considered a safer choice.
Category IIIB operation does not have a ‘high decision’ (high or lowest height when approaching offspring) and the visual range of the runway is not less than 50m, while the operation of the Category IIIA is a precision instrument approach and landing with a visual range of the foundation of less than 200 m.
However, even so, flights were canceled because the plane was not equipped with a paint IIIB compatible device.