PATNA: With the rise in airfares on different domestic routes, the Jayprakash Narayan International Airport (JPNI) has witnessed a drastic fall in daily passenger footfall for more than a week now. Flight operations, too, has reduced to almost half due to low occupancy rate.
When compared to previous month, the daily footfall of passengers has come down by 35-40% or 6,000-7000 flyers per day. In March, the average footfall was around 12,000 at Patna airport. The number of flights operating from the airport has also come down to 30-35 per day against the summer schedule of 55 flights. The operations of night flights remained cancelled for the last few days due to poor occupancy.
