India’s airports may not be ready for a post-covid revival in air travel

Indians are increasingly returning to air travel after being grounded by the covid-19 pandemic for months, but the country’s airports are now a matter of concern.

At many of the facilities, the numbers still are a third of what they used to be till March 2020. Nevertheless, rising vaccination coverage and a corresponding fall in infections have boosted flyers’ confidence. Travel restrictions have, meanwhile, been progressively eased.

On Oct. 3, Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport, India’s largest, received the highest number of flyers on a single day since the catastrophic second wave blighted the country in April this year.

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