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Passenger traffic at Amritsar airport cross 2 lakh mark

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Nimrat Kaur
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Passenger traffic at Amritsar airport cross 2 lakh mark
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For the first time, the total monthly traffic of passengers, international and domestic, at Sri Guru Das Jee International Airport has crossed the 2 lakh mark. Sameep Singh Gumtala, Secretary, Overseas Affairs for the Amritsar Vikas Manch, an NGO lobbying for more flights from the airport, said, that the number of domestic passengers in December 2016 was 88,790 and it increased to 1,62,932 in December 2017. Similarly, International Travelers the total number in December 2016 was 56,284 whereas in December 2017 it was 51,945, appreciating by 8.4 percent. According to the latest data from the Airport Authority of India, the December figures of the airports show that in December 2017, the total number of passengers was 2,19,216, which also beat the number of 2,13,615 in November 2017. It is a matter of great pride for Punjab that the number of travelers from this airport has crossed 20.6 lakh annually for the first time in 2017, which is 37.4 percent more than the 15 lakh in 2016. In 2017, the maximum number of travelers travelling between Amritsar and Delhi were 11 lakh, while Amritsar-Mumbai was second with 2.8 lakh. Amritsar-Dubai moderate to 2.3 in the national flight. The major increase in the number of passengers from Amritsar airport have been due to the launch of flights from Indian Airlines to Amritsar, Delhi, Mumbai, Jammu, Srinagar, Bangalore and Nanded. 'The AVM has been advocating more international and domestic connectivity. The recently increased domestic flights have also propelled the increase in the traffic of international passengers, as more people tend to fly to and from Amritsar,' Sameep Singh Gumtala said. He said efforts of the AVM and other organizations had borne fruit as Air India recently announced to start a twice a week Amritsar-Birmingham direct flight in early 2018. He added that as Thai Airways, Indigo and Air Asia were exploring starting of international flights it would boost the international air connectivity of the holy city. With the introduction of the Cat-3B system, fewer flights were canceled in the month of December compared to the previous years. Despite the introduction of any new international flight, the total number of international passengers continued to increase. Starting Amritsar-Birmingham flights from February 2018, there will be a further increase in international passengers. -PTC News-
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