Movement of air passengers to Northeast rising amid corona pandemic

It is a motivating figure for aviation in the Northeast that during July-August -September, as on July 10, 86 flights operated in the north-eastern region which carried 5,625 passengers. Similarly as on August 10, 92 flights moved 7,024 passengers at Northeast airports. A month later the figures crossed hundred-mark and on September 10, 102 flights catered 11,213 passenger movements in the north-eastern States.

Airports which were operational during this period included Guwahati, Agartala, Imphal, Dibrugarh, Silchar, Dimapur, Jorhat, Tezpur and Lilabari.

JT Radhakrishna, Regional Executive Director (officiating), Airports Authority of India, north-eastern region said that LGBI Airport catered to maximum passengers and flight movements. On August 10, Guwahati Airport handled 2,812 passengers while in September on same date it had 4,060 passengers and on September 10 Guwahati got 5,924 passengers, he added.

Agartala, which is the second busiest of north-eastern states, handled 866 passengers on July 10. On August 10 it had 1044 passengers and on September 10 it catered 1765 passengers, Radhakrisha said.

Other airports in NER like Imphal saw 827 passengers on July 10, 600 passengers on August 10 and 1377 on Sept 10, 2020. Similarly at Dibrugarh 432 passengers on July 10 and 799 travelled on August 10 whereas on September 10 the figure touched 977 passengers, a press release said.

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