New Delhi: Jyotiraditya Scindia, India's Civil Aviation Minister, stated on Monday that he expects aircraft traffic to recover to pre-Covid levels in the next two months.

Scindia, citing passenger traffic figures released last week by the aviation regulator, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), said that while the drop was significant, the surge was also significant, with about 3.5 lakh passengers taking to the skies everyday during the period.

After recovering to 3.9 lakh passengers per day in November and December 2021, compared to 4 lakh passengers per day pre-Covid, the third wave of the Covid-19 pandemic resulted in a reduction of nearly 1 lakh passengers per day.

"If you look at the amplitude of the curve in physics terms, it has been pretty high." However, the wavelength was also relatively narrow, resulting in a bounce back. "Ceteris paribus – all else being equal – you should see us crossing pre-Covid levels in terms of daily passenger volume in the next two months or so," he said.

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