Wednesday, November 08, 2017

Vistara passenger traffic surges 80% in September quarter

Mumbai: The Tata-SIA joint venture airline, Vistara, carried 81 per cent more passengers at 1.1 million in the three months ended September 30 over the same period last year.

The third full-service domestic carrier after state-owned Air India and Naresh Goyal-promoted Jet AirwaysBSE 3.97 %, Vistara had flown 60 million passengers in the July-September period of the fiscal.
The massive jump in airline's passengers traffic came on the back of a 45 per cent increase in the number of seats flown during the period as well as expansion of the fleet to 16 aircraft from 12 at the end of September 2016, the airline said.

Vistara, which launched its services about three years ago, currently flies only on domestic routes.

The number of seats flown by the airline stood at 12,79,800 in the September quarter of the on-going fiscal as compared to 8,84,762 in the July-September period of last year, Vistara said.
07/11/17 PTI/Economic Times
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