<p>India's domestic passenger traffic has reached more than half of pre-coronavirus pandemic level operations with the number of daily air travellers crossing over two lakh in November, a top official of the Union Ministry of Civil Aviation (MOCA) said on Saturday.</p>.<p>MOCA Secretary Pradeep Singh Kharola said when flights resumed after a hiatus of two months due to the Covid-19 outbreak, there were only 30,000 air passengers on the first day but the number reached over two lakh on November 2.</p>.<p>He also said almost 100 per cent of bookings and check-ins are now happening through the web and hailed the country's aviation fraternity for adapting “very well” to the “new normal”.</p>.<p>“When we opened domestic aviation about five-six months back, in the month of May, on the first day, in a big country like ours, only 30,000 people travelled. And look at the figures last week, we have crossed two lakh passengers per day. In normal times, it is about three-and-a-half lakh to four lakh passengers a day,” Kharola said.</p>.<p>“So we have crossed more than half of the normal operations and at a very fast rate we are approaching the normal,” he added.</p>.<p>The top MOCA official was speaking at the 36th foundation day of government-run Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Uran Akademi (IGRUA), a premier aircraft pilot training institute at Fursatganj in Amethi.</p>
<p>India's domestic passenger traffic has reached more than half of pre-coronavirus pandemic level operations with the number of daily air travellers crossing over two lakh in November, a top official of the Union Ministry of Civil Aviation (MOCA) said on Saturday.</p>.<p>MOCA Secretary Pradeep Singh Kharola said when flights resumed after a hiatus of two months due to the Covid-19 outbreak, there were only 30,000 air passengers on the first day but the number reached over two lakh on November 2.</p>.<p>He also said almost 100 per cent of bookings and check-ins are now happening through the web and hailed the country's aviation fraternity for adapting “very well” to the “new normal”.</p>.<p>“When we opened domestic aviation about five-six months back, in the month of May, on the first day, in a big country like ours, only 30,000 people travelled. And look at the figures last week, we have crossed two lakh passengers per day. In normal times, it is about three-and-a-half lakh to four lakh passengers a day,” Kharola said.</p>.<p>“So we have crossed more than half of the normal operations and at a very fast rate we are approaching the normal,” he added.</p>.<p>The top MOCA official was speaking at the 36th foundation day of government-run Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Uran Akademi (IGRUA), a premier aircraft pilot training institute at Fursatganj in Amethi.</p>