New Delhi: Despite Covid-19 induced economic challenges, senior executive of airline major IndiGo estimates a rebound in domestic passenger traffic within the next 5 months.
The airlineās Chief Commercial Officer, William Boulter is encouraged by the fact that demand has sustained since the restart of operations on May 25. Passenger air services were suspended on March 25 due to the nationwide lockdown to check the spread of Covid19.
Presently, airlines are only allowed to deploy 45 per cent of their total capacity to service domestic routes.
Even with capped capacity, domestic airlines were able to ferry around two million passengers during the past one month. “People travel for a number of different reasons, many of which can be seen as essentialā,” Boulter said.