Domestic air passenger traffic in India up by 19% in Jan-Aug

New Delhi: Continuing its upward trend, domestic air passenger traffic in India rose by over 19 per cent between January and August compared to the same period last year.
Passengers carried by domestic airlines in this period was 339.09 lakh compared with 284.24 lakh in the same period in 2009, registering a growth of 19.3 per cent, official figures released today showed.
However, the monthly traffic figure for August, a lean travel period, experienced a decline against that witnessed in July. The total domestic passengers carried by the scheduled Indian airlines in August was 39.89 lakh as against 40.84 lakh in the previous month.
Jet Airways and its low-cost arm JetLite together led the number of passengers carried by flying 10.78 lakh, followed by Kingfisher and Kingfisher Red with 7.97 lakh and Air India (Domestic) with 7.3 lakh.
Among the no-frill airlines, IndiGo led the way by flying 6.56 lakh, followed by SpiceJet with 5.02 lakh and GoAir with 2.26 lakh.
The percentage share of the carriers in August was Jet-JetLite with 27 per cent, Kingfisher 20, Air India (Domestic) 18.3, IndiGo 16.4, SpiceJet 12.6 and GoAir 5.7, the figures issued by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation showed.
16/09/10 PTI/Economic Times

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Categories: Indian Aviation- In General Sep 2010