Delhi, Mumbai airports see pick up in traffic after first fall in decade

Mumbai and Delhi saw a dip in passenger traffic last year due to closure of Jet Airways

Passenger traffic at the Mumbai and Delhi airports is picking up after witnessing a fall last year, the first such decline since 2008.

The primary reason for the dip in annual passenger traffic was the closure of Jet Airways. In Mumbai, the airline’s closure on April 17 led to a reduction of 142 flights a day for about two months. But improvement in load factors, coupled with an increase in seat capacity after Jet’s slots were allotted to low-cost airlines, has resulted in a 4 per cent increase in daily passenger traffic over past two months, sources said. Mumbai International Airport