Domestic airlines take off with more passengers in April

New Delhi: Kingfisher was the only one-of-the-three full service airlines which reported a marginal decline in number of passengers flown in April this year at 8.98 lakh against 8.99 lakh carried in the preceding month. In comparison, Air India (Domestic) flew 69,000 more passengers in April as compared to the previous month.
The latest data collated by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation show that in April the domestic airlines carried 41.88 lakh passengers, an increase of almost seven per cent over the previous month.
The performance of the industry has been much better at 26 per cent if a year-on-year comparison is made. The data show that April has been the best month for the industry during this calendar year both in terms of number of passengers carried and seat factors recorded.
All the eight airlines have reported improvement in their seat factors, which indicates the number of seats occupied on each flight, in April as compared to the previous month this year. Air India (Domestic) saw its seat factor rise to 72.9 per cent in April from 66.5 per cent in March, Jet Airways 74.2 per cent (70.3 per cent), JetLite 78.1 per cent (72.9 per cent), Kingfisher 75.8 per cent (70.1 per cent), SpiceJet 81 per cent (73.5 per cent), Go Air 78 per cent (70 per cent), Paramount 85 per cent (84.7 per cent) and IndiGo 82.4 per cent (74 per cent).
13/05/10 Business Line

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Categories: Indian Aviation- In General May 2010