Despite high air fares and airlines flying less than they did before the COVID-19 pandemic, Kerala has clearly outpaced many of its neighbours in the international passenger movements after the post-pandemic era, chiefly driven by the surge in summer vacation travel of Gulf expatriates.
As many as 29 airports in the country together handled 1.19 crore international passengers in the first quarter of the current fiscal (April to June) as per the statistics tabled by the Ministry of Civil Aviation in Parliament.
