Airlines carry 3.4L flyers in a day, most since March last yr

With Dussehra and then Diwali falling in the same month this year, domestic airlines saw a sharp upswing in passenger traffic for the second time in October.

Mumbai: Domestic airlines had carried a record 3.27 lakh passengers on the Sunday after Dussehra and now on the weekend before Diwali, a new record has been set, what with 3.38 lakh passengers boarding over 2,500 domestic flights on Saturday, the highest per day volume of passengers and flights flown since March 23 last year.