A great March -- airlines flew 23.5% more people

Bangalore: Domestic passenger traffic continued to soar with airlines carrying 39.03 lakh fliers in March this year, up 23.51% from the same month last year when they had flown 31.60 lakh passengers.
Ministry of civil aviation data show this year’s March passenger number was higher compared with even 2008 when local airlines had carried 37.11 lakh.
In the first quarter too, 17.13% more passengers took to the sky this year at 118.53 lakh against 98.22 lakh in the first three months - January to March - of 2009.
Air traffic was up month-on-month, too, as it climbed 1.035% in that period from 38.63 passengers in February.
In March 2009, airlines had recorded an average of high 60 load factor.
In terms of market share, all carriers lost marginally except Kingfisher Airlines and Air India (domestic) in March compared to February.
The Vijay Mallya-owned carrier’s share moved up to 23% from 22.7% while Air India’s to 17.8% from 17.2%.
Naresh Goyal-owned Jet Airways, along its subsidiary JetLite that offer budget services, maintained market dominance with 26%. Jet’s share was down by 10 basis points (bps) from 26.10% in February.
IndiGo, SpiceJet, GoAir and Paramount Airways market pie shrunk to 14.70%, 11.9%, 5.3% and 1.3% from 14.90%, 12.2%, 5.5% and 1.8%.
16/04/10 Praveena Sharma/Daily News & Analysis

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Categories: Indian Aviation- In General Apr 2010