India's domestic air traffic declined substantially by over nine per cent in February compared with the same month last year, as on average over a quarter of seats remained vacant on flights in this period, global airlines' body IATA has said.
In its latest global passenger traffic results, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) found the domestic traffic in India dropping 9.1 per cent in February compared to a year ago.
This decline occurred even when the global passenger demand rose 3.7 per cent compared to February last year.
The results also showed that the overall passenger load factor slipped to 74.5 per cent, implying that on an average only so much of seats in an airplane in India was filled up.
Passenger load factor is a measure of how much of an airline's passenger-carrying capacity or aircraft seats offered is used.
04/04/13 PTI/Economic Times
