Domestic air traffic declines in Jan

New Delhi: Domestic air travellers continue to keep away from the skies. The latest data collated by the Directorate-General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) for January this year show a 14.65-per cent decline in domestic traffic as compared to the same period in the previous year. In January this year, the nine domestic airlines carried 33.26 lakh passengers, about 5.7 lakh fewer passengers than last year.
Kingfisher Airlines, for the second successive month in January, remained the market leader flying 9.19 lakh passengers.
The closest competitor was Jet Airways which flew 5.96 lakh passengers, while its 100 per cent subsidiary, Jetlite carried 2.41 lakh passengers. But even together both the airlines carried almost 80,000 fewer passengers in January compared to Kingfisher Airlines. Jet Airways suffered the sharpest decline in the number of passengers flown, carrying 2.88 lakh fewer passengers in January as compared to the same previous period.
JetLite, GoAir and SpiceJet were the other airlines which carried fewer passengers in January as compared to the previous year.
The Delhi-based low cost airline, IndiGo, NACIL (Domestic) and Paramount Airways were among the airlines which carried more passengers in January on a year-on-year basis. While IndiGo flew 34,000 more passengers, Paramount saw additional 22,000 travellers and Nacil (domestic) moved 12,000 more passengers than in January last year.
17/02/09 Business Line

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Categories: Indian Aviation- In General Feb 2009