From five to zero, Belagavi is back with a bang and now leading in terms of more routes and more aircraft’s and the month of December 2020 saw aircraft movement of 727.
The movement of 727 aircraft’s from IXG while in December 2019 it was 602.
34,201 passengers moved in December 2020 while 32,571 moved in December 2019.
1,55,842 passengers have moved from April to December 2020.
| Movement | Dec ‘20 | Nov ‘20 | Oct ’20 | Sept ‘20 | Aug ‘20 | July ‘20 | June ‘20 |
| Aircraft | 727 | 652 | 634 | 511 | 418 | 444 | 391 |
| Passenger | 34201 | 29568 | 26183 | 23170 | 17914 | 14147 | 10224 |
UDAN has become the savior for the airport and now is flying high and making new records in terms of aircraft movements and also passenger movements.
On an average 28 flight operations a day and connected to 11 cities. Two more cities would be added by next month.
The only drawback as yet is, no big planes such as Airbus or Boeing are flying from here.
Belagavi will not only be the most connected destination in North Karnataka but also the busiest one, and besides it has now second-highest load to Bengaluru after Mangluru in the state, thanking all the people of Belagavi and people who have contributed for the cause, and ending on a positive note to see some international routes to start from here in near future.
Currently, IXG has flights to Bengaluru (4), 3 to Hyderabad, 2 to Mumbai, and 1 each to Pune, Indore, Surat, Cuddapah, Tirupati, Mysore, Chennai and Ahmedabad, (Nashik &Jodhpur to commence soon) with around 27 operations a day on average.