Domestic air traffic soars to pre-pandemic levels

Domestic air traffic rose to a record in May as demand for air travel in India soared despite the grounding of the Go First airline and high airfares, government data showed.

- Anu Sharma

Indian airlines carried around 13.2 million passengers in May, surpassing the previous record of 13.02 million set in December 2019. Domestic air traffic in May is also 15% higher than the year-ago period and has risen more than 2% since April.

While air traffic has created a new high and beaten the pre-pandemic levels of demand, the number of flights has still not beaten the pre-pandemic average daily flight count of 2,900 departures.