New Delhi: The T2 terminal of the Delhi international airport will resume operations from July 22, two months after it was shut down due to significant drop in domestic air traffic owing to the COVID-19 pandemic’s second wave, a statement said on Saturday.

The resumption of operations at T2 from July 22 onwards will be with approximately 200 air traffic movements (100 departures and 100 arrivals) per day and increase progressively up to around 280 movements by August-end, the statement of Delhi airport’s operator DIAL said.

Currently, only the T3 terminal of the Delhi airport is handling flight operations.

“The T2 terminal will resume operations with IndiGo’s 2000-2999 series flights and entire operations of GoAir, and is expecting to witness around 25,000 passenger footfall in the initial phase,” the Delhi International Airport Limited (DIAL) stated.

About 27 counters 11 for GoAir and 16 for IndiGo – will be available to cater to the passengers of respective flights, it said.

The decision to resume T2 operations was taken after the Delhi airport started witnessing gradual growth in passenger footfall post relaxation in lockdown and travel norms by various states since June this year, it noted.

The T2 terminal had started handling flight operations on October 1 last year. It was shut down on May 18 this year as the number of flights dropped dramatically due to the second wave of the pandemic.

New Delhi: Delhi international airport operator DIAL said that the number of domestic passengers has increased by more than three times between mid-May and June-end in an official statement.

In June this year, most of those who flew were in ‘visiting family and friends’ category (48 per cent), which was followed by ‘vacation’ (25 per cent) and ‘business travellers’ (19 per cent), the statement mentioned.

However, in June 2019, around 44 per cent of flyers were vacationers, while 41 per cent were of the ‘visiting family and friends’ category, the DIAL added.

“Delhi airport has witnessed over three times rise in domestic passenger numbers from around 18,000 per day in mid of May 2021 to over 62,000 per day at the end of June 2021,” said the Delhi International Airport Limited (DIAL).

Similarly, the number of international travellers grew from around 4,500 per day in mid of May to nearly 7,500 per day in June-end, it noted.

India and its aviation sector have been badly hit due to the second wave of the coronavirus pandemic, which is receding currently but was in full force in April and May.

Currently, the airlines are permitted to operate not more than 50 per cent of their pre-COVID domestic flights.

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New Delhi: The Delhi international airport is going to shut operations at its T2 terminal due to the fall in passenger traffic amid the second wave of COVID-19 in the country, the PTI news agency reported on Tuesday (May 11, 2021).

“From May 17 midnight, all flights will be handled at the T3 terminal only,” PTI quoted Delhi Airport as saying.

They stated that currently, the Delhi airport is handling around 325 flights per day and before the pandemic, it used to handle around 1,500 flights daily.

During the last few weeks, the number of domestic air passengers per day has come from more than 2.2 lakh to around 70,000, according to the Civil Aviation Ministry’s data.

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Meanwhile, India saw a decline in COVID-19 cases for the second straight day and recorded over 3.29 lakh infections, the data by the Union Health Ministry said on Tuesday (May 11, 2021).

There were 3,29,942 new COVID-19 cases and 3,876 deaths in the last 24 hours. The total number of coronavirus cases in the country has now increased to 2.26 crore, of which, 1.90 crore people have recovered, while 2.49 have died of the virus.

India, going through the second wave of coronavirus, now has 37,15,221 active cases. 13 states cumulatively account for over 82% of the country’s total active cases.

Earlier on Monday, India’s daily rise in COVID-19 cases had retreated from the 4 lakh mark and had seen 3,66,161 19 infections. 

This is to be noted that India’s COVID-19 tally had crossed the 20-lakh mark on August 7 in 2020, the 50-lakh mark on September 16 and the one-crore mark on December 19. 

(With inputs from agencies)
 

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