Most Indians prefer low cost airlines

New Delhi: The low cost airlines have once again scored over the full-service carriers when it comes to maintaining the seat factor.
According to the latest data from the civil aviation ministry, in the month of January 2008, the low cost airlines logged a seat factor of 73.4% as compared to 68.5% by the full-service carriers.
The data also showed that during January 2008, the total number of passengers increased by 13.60% and the share of private air carriers also witnessed a rise of 16.79% as compared to the corresponding period last year.
Seat factor is the percentage of total number of seats a carrier manages to fill out of the total number of seats.
However, this increase in the number of passengers did not bring any respite for Indian and its seat factor continued to plunge, reporting a decrease of 2.94%.
17/02/08 Raja Awasthi & Dheeraj Tiwari/Economic Times

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Categories: Indian Aviation- In General Feb 2008, Low Cost General Feb 2008