Where Can You Fly Right Now? India’s Outbreak Stalls Global Travel Rebound
A budding air-traffic recovery in one of the world’s biggest markets has been stopped in its tracks.
An aircraft operated by IndiGo prepares to land at Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport in Mumbai.
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The ferocious surge in new coronavirus cases that has turned India into the global pandemic hotspot has also reversed one of the airline industry’s biggest travel comebacks.
Carriers in India had reached 87% of their pre-pandemic seat capacity through early April, based on a Bloomberg analysis of data from flight tracker OAG. That progress has now unraveled as the surge in infections led to a pullback in domestic flights, which make up the vast majority of the market.