Indore: Most of the flights coming from Mumbai and other cities of Maharashtra to Indore seem to have started witnessing decline in passengers footfall in the last three days. This is apparently after the Indore district administration made a negative RTPCR report compulsory for people coming from Maharashtra.
The compulsion was announced by administration on the night March 15, and it came into effect from the very next morning forcing authorities of Devi Ahilyabai Holkar Airport of Indore to make arrangements for selfpaid Covid-19 RT-PCR test on the airport premises for passengers coming without a negative report.
A maximum of seven flights arrive from three different cities of Maharashtra to Indore daily. This includes five flights from Mumbai, one from Nagpur and one from Shirdi.
According to official records, 435 passengers came to Indore from different cities of Maharashtra on March 16, which went down to 383 on March 18 - almost 12 per cent decline in the last three days. On March 17, around 388 passengers came to Indore from Maharashtra. As per airport officials, the number flights operated on March 18 were higher than that on March 16. “The airport witnessed the arrival of seven flights including five from Mumbai, one from Nagpur and one from Shirdi on Thursday, while only five flights came to Indore on Wednesday as well as on Tuesday including four from Mumbai and one from Nagpur,” they pointed out.
Airlines also admitted about this decline, and said that there has been around 12 to 15 per cent decline in seat occupancy in most of the flights coming from Maharashtra after the compulsion about a negative Covid-19 RTPCR report came into effect.
20/03/21 Ashok Kumar/Times of India
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