Air India ticket sales jump 32% in February

Mumbai: Debt-stricken Air India has registered another improvement in year-on-year performance in February, with average passenger revenue growing by a healthy 32%, a senior airline official said.
While revenue from international network grew 20%, the same from the domestic network rose nearly 58% during the period, taking the overall revenue rise to 32%.
"The airline's on-time performance has improved by up to 80% across the network, in the first week of March, reaching as high as 88% on March 8," the official told PTI.
While capacity on its international services remained more or less stagnant, on the domestic service, it went up by 20% and on the overall network by 4%, he added.
There was also an increase in the number of passengers carried, which went up 13.4% on the overall network, he said.
The airline's yield per revenue kilometre increased 17% on international routes and nearly 31% on its domestic routes. On the overall network, there has been a 24% increase in the yield.
11/03/12 PTI/Times of India

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