Domestic air passenger traffic is likely to witness a de-growth by 41-46 per cent during 2020-21, rating agency ICRA said. The rating agency said the domestic airlines witnessed a rather slow uptick in capacity in July 2020 despite recommencement of operations over two months ago.
Accordingly, airlines operated at a much lower capacity at 27 per cent in July 2020 vis-a-vis their July 2019 capacity, which was a marginal increase over the 25 per cent capacity deployed in June 2020. In July 2020, the domestic passenger traffic was 20.6 lakh, as against 118.6 lakh in July 2019, a Y-o-Y de-growth of 83 per cent.
The domestic passenger traffic witnessed a sequential improvement of 4 per cent over 19.8 lakh in June 2020. Officially, the Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA) has permitted increasing the capacity to 45 per cent with effect from June 27, 2020, post the initial recommencement of operations of the scheduled domestic flights with effect from May 25, 2020 to a limited extent.
"The average number of passengers per flight during July 2020 was 86, as against an average of 134 passengers per flight in July 2019," Kinjal Shah, Vice President, ICRA said in a statement. "Thus, it is expected that the domestic aviation industry operated at a passenger load factor (PLF) of 55 per cent in July 2020, as against 86.3 per cent in July 2019, that too on very low capacity. The PLF for July 2020 has sequentially moderated from 58 per cent in June 2020 due to the increase in capacity deployment by 11 per cent."
04/08/20 IANS/News18
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Accordingly, airlines operated at a much lower capacity at 27 per cent in July 2020 vis-a-vis their July 2019 capacity, which was a marginal increase over the 25 per cent capacity deployed in June 2020. In July 2020, the domestic passenger traffic was 20.6 lakh, as against 118.6 lakh in July 2019, a Y-o-Y de-growth of 83 per cent.
The domestic passenger traffic witnessed a sequential improvement of 4 per cent over 19.8 lakh in June 2020. Officially, the Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA) has permitted increasing the capacity to 45 per cent with effect from June 27, 2020, post the initial recommencement of operations of the scheduled domestic flights with effect from May 25, 2020 to a limited extent.
"The average number of passengers per flight during July 2020 was 86, as against an average of 134 passengers per flight in July 2019," Kinjal Shah, Vice President, ICRA said in a statement. "Thus, it is expected that the domestic aviation industry operated at a passenger load factor (PLF) of 55 per cent in July 2020, as against 86.3 per cent in July 2019, that too on very low capacity. The PLF for July 2020 has sequentially moderated from 58 per cent in June 2020 due to the increase in capacity deployment by 11 per cent."
04/08/20 IANS/News18
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