Mumbai: Mumbai Airport continues to stay on Bengaluru to maintain its second busiest ranking in the country after Delhi in 2021.
Between January and December, Mumbai Airport handled 1.9 crore passengers at around 1.6 lakh flights while followed by 1.6 passengers Crore on 1.5 lakh flights, according to data is shared independently by two airports.
Of about 2 crore passengers arriving or departing from Mumbai last year, around 88% or 1.7 crore were domestic leaflets at 1.4 lakh flights, said Mumbai International Airport Ltd (MIAL).
Bengaluru Airport handles 1.5 domestic passenger crore.
After the second Covid wave in April – May 2021, recovery on the domestic air journey saw Mumbai airport registering a more than 117% increase in traffic in July-December with around 10.9 million passengers who opposed around 5 million in the same period on the same period on the same period 2020, said Mial.
International passenger traffic continued to be very devastated in 2021.
While Mumbai Airport handles 24 international passenger lakh, Bengaluru handles only 9 lakh.
For the Mumbai airport, the last three quarters of the calendar (CY) 2021 cumulatively witnessed around 19 Lakh International passengers, which was around 174% more than 2020 when more than 7 feet points were registered, he added.
The end of the year’s journey saw Mumbai airport and Bengaluru registered the highest passenger steps in December.
The one-day volume recorded the highest Mumbai was 1 lakh, the highest since March 2020 when the pandemic hit.
For Bengaluru, the highest volume per day is 82,000.
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