No air routes from city figure among top 25 in country
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Chennai:10.11.2020
The number of flights may be increasing at the city airport but none of the routes from the city are on the list of top 25 busiest ones across the country in terms of demand, shows online booking trends.
As business travel resumes, Mumbai-Delhi and Bengaluru-Delhi, Delhi-Patna, Kolkata-Bengaluru, Kolkata-Mumbai and similar routes from other metro are the busiest. However, similar kind of demand is not there for travel from Chennai. This shows the business travel is yet to resume and a majority of people who travel are families and guest workers.
Nevertheless, more people have started flying from Chennai for Diwali and to return to the city after the government announcement to reopen colleges. And flights from Chennai to Mumbai, Kolkata, Delhi, Patna, Lucknow, Hyderabad, Coimbatore, Madurai, Varanasi, Jaipur are the most popular among the travellers this month.
Nishanth Pitti, CEO, EaseMyTrip said Mumbai, Kolkata, Delhi, Hyderabad and Jaipur were the top five destinations from Chennai based on booking trend. More people are also travelling to Coimbatore, Madurai, Goa, Visakhapatnam and Ahmedabad as these destinations figure among the top ten in popularity for the season.
Aloke Bajpai, CEO & cofounder, ixigo, said, “We have seen a 40% increase in advance bookings for festive travel, in the last three weeks . Leisure destinations like Goa this month are also witnessing strong traffic from Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore. We have seen a 74% month-on-month increase in bookings for Goa around Diwali.”
The city airport handles around 180 domestic flights a day as arrivals and departures have touched 90 flights a day on most days.
“The numbers are edging closer to the 100 arrivals a day approved by the state government. The demand for travel is likely to increase further closer to Diwali. The government move to open colleges too may see students returning,” said an airport official
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