Mumbai, India's domestic air passenger traffic grew 1.4 per cent year-on-year to 1,677.4 lakh in FY26, in line with the Icra's estimate of 0-3 per cent, the agency said on Tuesday.
All Indian airlines together had flown a total of 1,653.8 lakh passengers in FY25.
For March this year, the domestic air passenger traffic rose 1 per cent year-on-year to 146.8 lakh, Icra said.
The airlines' capacity deployment in March 2026 was 3 per cent lower than a year earlier, the agency said, adding that it is estimated that the domestic aviation industry operated at a passenger load factor of 89.5 per cent in the reporting month compared to 86 per cent in March 2025.
International passenger traffic for Indian carriers in February this year stood at 28.5 lakh, a decline of 0.3 per cent yearon-year and a sequential fall of 16 per cent. For the April-February period of the previous fiscal, it was seen at 331.5 lakh, a growth of 7.7 per cent, Icra said.
28/04/2026 PTI/Economic Times
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