Hyderabad : RGIA keeps up as 2 best-connected airport

Hyderabad : The operations at the GMR Hyderabad International Airport are normalising and the footfall in a single day touched the 37,000 mark for domestic operations post- lockdown in the month of November 2020.

Even with the relaxation of quarantine norms, the guidelines on the medical profile of the passengers and RT-PCR medical report are still asked by many states, but thanks to the new Covid-19 testing facility at the airport, RGIA has made air travel, the safest mode to travel.

From about 3,000 domestic passengers coming daily in the first few weeks post recommencement, the passenger footfall now has increased to over 30,000 daily, that is 10 times more.

Hyderabad has also seen uptick in the Air Traffic Movement (ATM) from about 40 daily ATMs in the first few weeks of the restart. The number of domestic passengers in a single day touched 37,000 mark recently, the highest since the recommencement of domestic operations.

With three new destinations, RGIA is now connected to 54 domestic destinations.

GHIAL also started an on-site coronavirus testing laboratory at the RGIA, giving travellers the added facility for a safe journey. GHIAL has partnered with Mapmygenome, an ICMR and NABL certified lab for the same. The lab is said to operate 24/7 for passengers and airport personnel. Passengers can avail the testing facility at the immigration level or the forecourt of Interim International Departures terminal.

In October this year, the International Airport also extended its indigenously developed digital solution of e-boarding services to international flights, becoming the first airport in India to do so.

GMR Hyderabad International Airport spokesperson said that crossing the three million passenger mark is a testimony to the growing passenger confidence in air travel.