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Domestic air passenger traffic rises by 6.19% in June
Jul-22-2019

Directorate General of Civil Aviation in its monthly data has showed that India’s domestic air passenger traffic rose 6.19 percent in June over the year-ago period, with domestic airlines flew 12.02 million passengers in the month. It noted that the uptick in June 2019 follows a marginal under 3 percent growth in May ferrying 11.2 million passengers. However, it pointed out that this was after a 4.5 percent de-growth in April-the first time in six years--due to suspension of operations by Jet Airways and the resultant spike in ticket prices during the peak summer holidays. 

According to data, country’s largest carrier, IndiGo continued its market leadership ferrying 5.77 million passengers in June, followed by rival Spicejet with 1.86 million, Air India at 1.55 million passengers, while Goair (1.33 million), AirAsia India (7.72 lakh) and Vistara (6.48 lakh) followed closely. In terms of market share, budget carrier IndiGo’s market share fell 0.9 percent to 48.1 percent, while Spicejet cornered 15.6 percent of the traffic volume and Air India's had 12.9 percent of the pie. Significantly for Indigo, this was the third consecutive loss of market share as it had notched up 49.9 percent in April, which declined to 49 percent in May.

In terms of the passenger load factor -- which is measured by dividing the number of passengers to the number of available seats in a flight, Goair unseated Spicejet, which had a long streak of highest load-factor, with 94 percent load factor in June, while Spicejet's stood at 93.7 percent and AirAsia India's at 90.7 percent. 

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