Bombay:
India’s domestic passenger traffic grew 13.69 percent year-on-year to 127.35 lakh in December, according to DGCA’s monthly traffic data released on Thursday.
The number of passengers flown by the Indian airlines in December 2021 was 112.02 lakh according to data.
IndiGo, which carried 69.97 lakh passengers during the month, further lost market share by 55.7 percent, while Air India and Vistara carried 11.71 lakh and 11.70 lakh passengers, with market share of 9. 1 percent and 9.2 percent.
AirAsia flew 9.71 lakh passengers with a market share of 7.6 percent during the month, the DGCA data shows.
The two other budget airlines – SpiceJet and Go First – carried 9.64 lakh and 9.51 lakh passengers in December 2022.
SpiceJet also saw the highest load factor on its flights of any domestic airline, with 92.7 percent of the seats on its aircraft occupied during the month under review.
Newcomer Akasa Air also carried 2.92 lakh passengers with a market share of 2.3 percent.
IndiGo maintained its top spot in on-time performance at four major metro airports in the country, as 88.6 percent of its flights arrived or departed at these airports on schedule, according to DGCA data.
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