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With encouraging domestic passenger numbers, Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia has said that the country's civil aviation sector is witnessing a very strong V-shaped recovery and the growth will continue in the coming years. After being significantly hit by the coronavirus pandemic, the sector is on the recovery path and the daily domestic air passenger traffic has been above the 4-lakh mark for the past few weeks.

Moreover, he said the domestic passenger numbers are very encouraging and already, the number is around 111 million till November this year. Against the backdrop of congestion at airports that has now eased, the civil aviation minister also said efforts have been made to ensure that airport operators put in place steps that will allow the decongestion of airports.

Besides, about the current coronavirus situation worldwide and its shadow on the civil aviation sector, Scindia said Covid is always a concern. He said ‘The very fact that we have very high Covid numbers across the world today from China to South Korea to Japan to European countries, it is certainly a concern.’ He added ‘We have to be careful, which is why we have put in place what the health ministry requested us and mandated us for 2 per cent screening of all passengers coming into India. Fortunately, we are not seeing that high positivity numbers at least currently... I think we need to still wait and watch the situation.’