Lean season fails to dampen fliers

Bangalore: The lean season pulled down the number of passengers who took to the sky in the domestic market in June - to 45.04 lakh, down 5.87% from 47.85 lakh in May, according to data released by the ministry of civil aviation (MoCA) on Thursday.
However, on a year-on-year (YoY) basis, passenger numbers were up 39.48% in June, from 39.29 lakh in the same month last year.
The ministry has also put out quarterly numbers, which showed airlines carried 13.7% more fliers in the second quarter (between April and June) of this year, at 134.77 lakh against 118.53 lakh passengers in the first quarter.
In June, Jet Airways, along with its low cost subsidiary JetLite, continued its market dominance, with a 26.5% share, up from 26.2% in May, after ferrying 11.91 lakh passengers. Kingfisher Airlines and IndiGo also increased their market shares to 21.1% and 16.4% from 20.9% and 15.7%, respectively.
IndiGo is now only inches away from Air India, whose market share slipped from 17.7% in May to 16.9% last month. Other airlines, which saw their pies shrink in June were Paramount Airlines and GoAir — to 0.3% and 5.8% from 0.4% and 5.9%. SpiceJet’s share moved up marginally to 13.3% from 13.2%.
16/07/10 Praveena Sharma/Daily News & Analysis

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Categories: Indian Aviation- In General Jul 2010