PRINCE KUMAR
Ranchi, Mar 28: With the decrease in covid cases in the state, the number of flights from the Birsa Munda Airport has increased facilitating the commuters.
Airport director Vinod Sharma said that during the phase of covid the number of flights was reduced to half whereas, before the pandemic, 26 flights took off from the airport daily.
“Finally with the reduction in the Covid cases, we have achieved to increase the number of flights to 28 flights in a day from March 1,” Vinod said.
On the question of whether all the seats on the flight taking off from Ranchi are occupied or not, he said that nearly all the flights are fully occupied by commuters.
“There was no serious impact on the flights due to the starting of the regular international flight from yesterday,” he added.
The airlines operate in two schedules — winter and summer. The summer schedule, which started on March 27, will conclude on October 29.
Airport director Vinod Sharma said, “Number of flights has been increased from 28 in the winter schedule to 32 in the summer schedule.”
The Ranchi airport has recently been adjudged the second-best in the Customer Satisfaction Index (CSI) published by the Airport Authority of India (AAI).
“Among the 68 airports of the country where the survey was conducted, Ranchi bagged the second rank,” Sharma said.
He said that the survey is conducted among passengers on various parameters, including parking arrangements, entrance facility, washrooms, cleanliness and seating arrangements.
