Covid resurgence likely to delay airport passenger recovery
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Mumbai, April 8 : The rapid increase in new cases is credit negative for Indian airports, given the adverse impact on passenger and aircraft traffic, the key revenue driver for the sector, Moody s Investors Service said in a report.
India is in the midst of another Covid-19 wave. Daily infection cases in India breached 1,00,000 on April 4, up from around 25,000 in mid-March.
Before the recent resurgence, India had contained the spread of the virus and infection numbers had fallen after the previous peak in mid-September 2020. The steady decline over that time had allowed for a gradual increase in total airline seat capacity and for domestic passenger traffic to recover to around 60 per cent of the 2019 level by the end of February 2021, the agency said.
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The article investigates the ongoing tussle between the central government and the Government of Kerala regarding the leasing of the Thiruvananthapuram airport to the private sector. It traces the genesis of the problem and the rationale of the state government demand for a role in the management of the airport.
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Panchkula, April 2
The special NIA court in Panchkula on Friday framed charges against a Bihar man in a case pertaining to hoax bomb call at the Delhi Airport in August 2019 to stop his girlfriend from flying abroad for work.
Nasrudeen has been charged under Section 3 read with Section 4 of the Anti-Hijacking Act,2016. The next date of hearing in the case is July 6.
The NIA had filed the chargesheet against the accused in July last year.
The accused from Sitamarhi in Bihar, who used to work in Chennai, had allegedly made a call at the Delhi International Airport Limited’s call centre in Gurugram on August 8, 2019 that a woman named Zabina had reached the airport and could cause a blast on a Kuwait-bound flight.