Airline sector seeing revival expects 40 cr passenger traffic by FY24 Scindia
New Delhi Mar 23 PTI As many as 382 lakh passengers undertook air travel daily in the last seven days giving hopes of revival of the sector scarred by Covid-19 Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia said on Wednesday as he set a target of nearly tripling total passenger traffic by 2023-24 to 40 crore Scindia further said that at a time when the airline industry world over is facing turbulence two new airlines Jet and Akasa will soon launch their services Replying to the Demands for Grants 2022-23 for the Ministry of Civil Aviation he said that the government has brought about a paradigm shift a structural change in the sector in the last two years and it will focus on inclusion access and affordablity to increase demand among common man The total number of passenger travelled increased from 670 crore in 2013-14 to 1450 crore in 2018-19 The number of planes too increased from 400 from 2013-14 to 710 by 2018-19 As per DGCA data 838 crore people travelled on domestic flights in 2021 as compared to 63 crore in 2020 – the year which saw the outbreak of Covid-19 Scindia said the aviation sector started to look up post the second Covid wave and the number of air travellers in the country increased to 390 lakh per day in November 2021 compared to 415 lakh per day in pre-Covid times But due to Omicron it came down 160 lakh per day I am happy to report that in last seven days we are again back to 382 lakh per day There is a hope of revival and based on that we expect that by 2023-24 we will take the number of 40 crore he said Scindia said the aviation sectors competitiveness can be compared to AC-1 and AC-2 services of Indian Railways Last year 185 crore people travelled AC-1 and 2 Till 2014 there were 74 airports in the country and in the last seven years 66 new airports were added So the total number of airports in the country now stands at 140 Our resolve is to take this number up to 220 by 2025 Scindia said PTI JD SKU DSP MR MR
New Delhi Mar 23 PTI As many as 382 lakh passengers undertook air travel daily in the last seven days giving hopes of revival of the sector scarred by Covid-19 Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia said on Wednesday as he set a target of nearly tripling total passenger traffic by 2023-24 to 40 crore Scindia further said that at a time when the airline industry world over is facing turbulence two new airlines Jet and Akasa will soon launch their services Replying to the Demands for Grants 2022-23 for the Ministry of Civil Aviation he said that the government has brought about a paradigm shift a structural change in the sector in the last two years and it will focus on inclusion access and affordablity to increase demand among common man The total number of passenger travelled increased from 670 crore in 2013-14 to 1450 crore in 2018-19 The number of planes too increased from 400 from 2013-14 to 710 by 2018-19 As per DGCA data 838 crore people travelled on domestic flights in 2021 as compared to 63 crore in 2020 – the year which saw the outbreak of Covid-19 Scindia said the aviation sector started to look up post the second Covid wave and the number of air travellers in the country increased to 390 lakh per day in November 2021 compared to 415 lakh per day in pre-Covid times But due to Omicron it came down 160 lakh per day I am happy to report that in last seven days we are again back to 382 lakh per day There is a hope of revival and based on that we expect that by 2023-24 we will take the number of 40 crore he said Scindia said the aviation sectors competitiveness can be compared to AC-1 and AC-2 services of Indian Railways Last year 185 crore people travelled AC-1 and 2 Till 2014 there were 74 airports in the country and in the last seven years 66 new airports were added So the total number of airports in the country now stands at 140 Our resolve is to take this number up to 220 by 2025 Scindia said PTI JD SKU DSP MR MR
