China, India's air traffic continue to decline

New Delhi: Air traffic on both domestic and international sectors in the "aviation powerhouses" of India and China have continued to decline even during the ongoing festive season, though the traffic outlook for the future has improved irrespective of growing costs.
According to latest data, the percentage year-on-year domestic traffic growth rate in India continued to fall since November last year and stood at about minus 15 per cent this July compared with plus ten in the same month last year.
International traffic growth rate in the country, however, remained on the positive side, hovering between 20 and 10 per cent, as per figures of the Airports Authority of India (AAI) and the Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation (CAPA).
The price-sensitive travellers, who had just started embracing air travel as a viable alternative to ground travel, were "effectively priced out", CAPA said in a latest report, adding that India and China have witnessed "deep downturns this year" primarily due to state-controlled fuel prices, which have upped travel cost.
12/10/08 PTI/The Hindu

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Categories: Foreign Oct 2008, Indian Aviation- In General Oct 2008