The Government will make efforts to reduce further the incidence of flights getting cancelled, Civil Aviation Minister Ashok Gajapathi Raju said on Wednesday. “No. (Number) of passengers affected due to cancelled flights shows sharp 35 per cent decrease. Shall strive to reduce this constantly,” Raju said in a tweet.
Raju tweeted along with a graphic showing the decline in the ‘passengers affected due to cancelled flights’. As per the graphic, the number of such passengers stood at 78,215 during July 2015- April 2016 period. The same stood at 1,19,552 during the period July 2014-April 2015. In April this year, as many as 5,025 passengers were affected by flight cancellations, latest data available with aviation regulator DGCA.