Hindustan Times ST (Mumbai)

391 flights operated to, from city since May 25

- HT Correspond­ent htmetro@hindustant­imes.com

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After the directives issued by the Government of India to resume domestic flight operations from May 25, the Mumbai Internatio­nal Airport managing Chhatrapat­i Shivaji Maharaj Internatio­nal Airport (CSMIA), has operated a total of 391 flights, which include 196 departures and 195 arrivals, in the last one week.

CSMIA has handled a total of 42,503 passengers, which include 31,665 passengers at departures and 10,838 at arrivals.

“CSMIA was operating to 14 sectors until Wednesday and saw two sectors - Kolkata and Rajkot added on Thursday. In the last one week, the passenger load capacity has been the highest on Mumbai - Delhi route with 8,130 passengers departing out of CSMIA,” said an MIAL spokespers­on. On Monday, CSMIA handled flights to destinatio­ns like Delhi, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Kochi, Calicut, Guwahati, Jaipur, Bengaluru, Gorakhpur, Lucknow, Ranchi, and Patna.

Apart from six flights operated by Goair, Air Asia India and Air India Express operated one departure and one arrival, Air India operated four flights, Indigo operated 20 flights, Spicejet operated 12 flights and Vistara operated four flights. Thus, CSMIA handled 50 flights, its maximum permitted flight operations by the government.

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