Guwahati: Airline passenger movement in North East India is growing with each passing month.
Amid corona pandemic, since the domestic flight operations resumed in the country, the airlines have slowly started their services to almost 50% pre-corona numbers adhering to all the health guidelines.
Airport Authority of India (AAI) stated in a statement on 10th July, 86 flights operated in the North East Region which carried 5,625 passengers.
Similarly on 10th Aug, 92 flights moved 7,024 passengers at North East Airports. A month later the figures crossed hundred marks and on 10th Sept, 102 flights catered 11,213 passenger movements at North East States.
Airports mainly operational during this period included Guwahati, Agartala, Imphal, Dibrugarh, Silchar, Dimapur, Jorhat, Tezpur & Lilabari.
J.T Radhakrishna, Regional Executive Director (officiating), Airports Authority of India, North East Region informed that LGBI Airport, Guwahati which is the gateway to the North East catered to maximum passengers and flight movements.
He added that Agartala, which is second busiest in North East states, handled 866 passengers on July 10. While on August 10 it had 1044 passengers and on September 10 it catered 1765 passengers.
14/09/20 Bikash Singh/Economic Times
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Amid corona pandemic, since the domestic flight operations resumed in the country, the airlines have slowly started their services to almost 50% pre-corona numbers adhering to all the health guidelines.
Airport Authority of India (AAI) stated in a statement on 10th July, 86 flights operated in the North East Region which carried 5,625 passengers.
Similarly on 10th Aug, 92 flights moved 7,024 passengers at North East Airports. A month later the figures crossed hundred marks and on 10th Sept, 102 flights catered 11,213 passenger movements at North East States.
Airports mainly operational during this period included Guwahati, Agartala, Imphal, Dibrugarh, Silchar, Dimapur, Jorhat, Tezpur & Lilabari.
J.T Radhakrishna, Regional Executive Director (officiating), Airports Authority of India, North East Region informed that LGBI Airport, Guwahati which is the gateway to the North East catered to maximum passengers and flight movements.
He added that Agartala, which is second busiest in North East states, handled 866 passengers on July 10. While on August 10 it had 1044 passengers and on September 10 it catered 1765 passengers.
14/09/20 Bikash Singh/Economic Times
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