Chennai: When the journey continues, international passenger traffic has recorded a stable surge at Chennai Airport.
The airport handled 83,000 passengers in August such as against 53,000 passengers in July.
It is ranked third after Delhi, Mumbai and Hyderabad.
Bengaluru handles 80,000 international passengers in August, according to statistics from the Indian Airport Authority (AAI).
The source said that the numbers for Chennai were projected to touch close to Lakh for September and October.
In the days of pre-covid, the airport is used to handle around 5lakh international passengers.
Although international flights scheduled have not been continued, there is a large demand from people traveling for education, business, and vacation.
Aai and Airlines officials said that Pent Up demand for trips would help the airport touched the pre-covid level level at the end of the year if scheduled flights were continued in November.
Sri Lanka and Thailand opened themselves to vaccinated travelers following European countries, ongoing Dubai Expo and IPL in the UAE will raise demand for trips for vacation and business in the coming weeks of the city.
The decision of the Indian government to continue the issuance of tourist visas arriving with Charter flights from October 15 will also increase the entrance trip.
Sri Lanka, Thailand, countries in the Middle East are the most popular destinations from Chennai.
S Baskar, a member of the Indian Federation Travel Agency Managing Committee (TAFI), said that “international travel will definitely increase in the coming months.” Sample surveys by Thomas Cook and SOTC among their customers throughout Metro show that around 77% of respondents want to fly abroad for free time in October-November-December.
Rajeev Kale, Head of President & State, Thomas Cook (India) Limited said, “Our survey highlighted a strong travel request for the last quarter of 2021.”