Air travel back at pre-Covid level by end 2020-early Jan: Puri

TIL Desk/Business/Hyderabad/ Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Monday exuded confidence that air travel will reach the pre-Covid level by the end of the current year or early next year.

Addressing the ‘Deccan Dialogue’ organised by the Indian School of Business (ISB) in collaboration with the Ministry of External Affairs, he said for the civil aviation sector to reach the pre-Covid level, people required to continue to maintain safety protocol with self-discipline.

“We opened civil aviation on 25th May, a good two months and two days after we had completely locked down, with 30,000 passengers a day. Two or three days ago, just before Diwali, we carried 225,000 people,” he said.