INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Vijayawada: Tramps have dipped at all airports with the Covid-19 spreading its tentacles and the governments scrambling to enforce
limitations on travel and businesses.In AP, Vijayawada International Airport used to operate 46 flights daily in pre-Covid times and it now
barely operating 8 to 12 flights to sectors like Hyderabad, Bengaluru and New Delhi
Travel prohibits troubled flights from India are just adding to the dwindling air traffic by the day
The crisis has actually struck earnings of airports along with earnings of stores and company facilities based on air travel
Airports Authority of India charges airline companies for operation of flights each year, decreased operation of flights is denting its
income as airline companies pay charges, based on the services availed and not in advance.It is discovered that financial constraints are
negatively impacting different advancement and maintenance works taken up by airports, such as extension of runways, development of aprons,
tarmacs, renovation of terminal buildings and other on advancement of other facilities and facilities
On how they are coping up with the Covid scenario, Vijayawada airport director G
Madhusudhana Rao stated, We are offering all facilities to passengers to prevent any trouble even as the tramps have boiled down due to
Covid at our airport and are strictly following all security standards
Tirupati airport utilized to operate 32 movements of flights in a day throughout pre-Covid times and at present it is able to run just three
to six services that too to Hyderabad just
Tirupati airport director S
Suresh stated, We are seeing a great deal of cancellation of operation of flights by the airline companies for desire of patronage from the
Except for hold-up in taking up numerous developmental works, we guarantee all security precautions for operation of flights
Rajahmundry airport which utilized to run 22 movements of flights a day to sectors like Hyderabad, Chennai, Bengaluru, Visakhapatnam,
Tirupati during per-Covid times is running just 6 at present
It looks forward to cater to choppers for oil business as they are going to resume overseas expedition of oil and gas
In Might, 2020, the airport witnessed tramps of 681 travelers and in March, 2021, it went up to 26,277 but moved to 20,000 in April
Rajahmundry airport director Manoj Nayak stated, We are maintaining all safety standards and even prepared to run medical ambulances
We might stop developmental works for the moment to resume them later offered the circumstance
Visakhapatnam International Airport, which operated 794 flights with a passenger footfall of 79,727 in September 2020, experienced an
extreme fall as it simply saw 20 flights with 1,214 passengers to domestic sectors like Delhi, Hyderabad, Raipur, Chennai, Mumbai,
Bengaluru, Kurnool and Port Blair on Might 21
Covid relief is getting here by air at the airport
On Friday, the airport got 101 boxes of oxygen concentrators from Hyderabad.
