Domestic air traffic movement may near pre-Covid level this winter

Among the major airlines, while Vistara is adding the highest number of flights (a 21.73 per cent increase over winter 2019), SpiceJet is seeing the highest drop

Domestic air traffic movement will be close to pre-pandemic levels in the upcoming winter schedule.

Domestic airlines have received approval to operate 22,287 flights per week (around 3,183 flights daily) in the winter schedule, which begins on Sunday. This is just 4.38 per cent lower than the number in the winter schedule 2019.

Earlier in the month the civil aviation ministry had allowed airlines to operate at 100 per cent capacity and so for the first time since May 2020 airlines will be able to do so.

Currently airlines are operating at 70-75 per cent of the pre-Covid-19 capacity and a ramp-up to