Summary:
In all, Madurai passengers would stand to lose about 550 seats daily. Likewise, the withdrawal of Jet Airways’ four ATR flight services to Chennai and one service to Bengaluru would result in other competing airlines increasing the airfare between these destinations. In these favourable circumstances, withdrawal of flights would only give an impression that Madurai was being neglected by the government. “Only when the long-pending demand of allowing foreign airlines to fly into Madurai is met will the domestic carriers stop from indulging in such actions in future. The passenger traffic had also gone up by 47.4% - from 9.78 lakh passengers handled in 2016-17 to 14.42 lakh passengers in 2017-18..