KOLKATA: The city airport clocked over 50,000 domestic passengers footfall for the first time in three months on Sunday, as summer schedule of domestic flights began. On Sunday, 51,465 passengers travelled through the airport by 358 flights. Add to that there were over 3,500 passengers in the 24 international flights.
“The last time we had movement of 50,000 plus domestic passengers at the airport was in the fourth week of December, when there was a surge of tourists in the winter festive season. But by the last week of December, the Omicron wave hit the city and passenger movement came down sharply. We are glad, the flyers have slowly got their confidence back with dip in number of Covid cases. By next month we hope to have 400 plus flight movement and 60,000 plus domestic passenger footfall,” said C Pattabhi, the Kolkata airport director.
