According to a PTI report, air traffic growth rate in India rebounded to almost pre-recession levels showing a continuous growth recording a 22 per cent rise in the first five months of this year. As per data released recently by Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), the number of passengers carried by domestic airlines from January to May this year was 211.38 lakh against 173.34 lakh in the same period last year, showing a growth of 21.95 per cent.
Before the global financial downturn, Indian air traffic was growing by an average of about 25 per cent. The figures showed that in May this year, total domestic passengers carried by scheduled Indian carriers was 47.85 lakh against 41.88 lakh in April this year.
Jet Airways and its subsidiary JetLite together carried the maximum number of passengers at 12.53 lakh, followed by Kingfisher Airlines and Low Cost Carrier Kingfisher Red at ten lakh. They were followed by Air India (domestic) at 8.47 lakh and Paramount Airways at 19,000. Among the no-frill carriers, IndiGo bagged a major chunk of the air traffic at 7.53 lakh, followed by SpiceJet at 6.32 lakh and GoAir at 2.81 lakh.
In the same month, the highest seat factor or average number of seats filled in each flight was recorded by no-frill airline IndiGo at 92.3 per cent, followed by SpiceJet at 90.4 and JetLite at 85.4.
Kingfisher Airlines registered a load factor of 83.2 per cent, followed by Jet Airways at 82.5 and Air India (Domestic) at 77.8 per cent.
The percentage share of carriers in the same month was led by Jet Airways and JetLite at 26.2 per cent, Kingfisher Airlines and Kingfisher Red with 20.9 per cent, Air India (Domestic)- 17.7 per cent, IndiGo- 15.7 per cent, SpiceJet- 13.2 per cent, GoAir- 5.9 per cent and Paramount Airways- 0.4 per cent.
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