Ahmedabad: Vacations have come and gone and they have failed to improve the fortune of airline companies. Popularity of air travel continues to nose dive among those affected by wanderlust in Gujarat.
Despite the Diwali vacation in the month of November last year, the number of domestic flyers has fallen by 18 per cent as compared to November 2011. It was in October 2012 that the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport had registered its biggest fall of 32 per cent in domestic tourists.
Officials in the airport said that as against 3.65 lakh travellers in November 2011, in November 2012, the number of tourist was 2.97 lakh.
The data of AAI reveals that from April to November 2012, there was a drop of about 17.2 per cent which is the highest when it comes to international airports across the state.
Officials said that even Delhi and Mumbai airports registered a drop in the number of passengers during April-November 2012. While the drop was 10 per cent in Delhi, it wasN 7.3 per cent in Mumbai.
05/02/13 Himanshu Kaushik/Times of India
