India’s Domestic Air Traffic posts double-digit growth in November

India’s industrial airways flew 1.42 crore passengers on home routes in November this 12 months, which represents a strong 12 per cent enhance in comparison with the identical month in the earlier 12 months, in keeping with figures compiled by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA). 

However, the On Time Performance (OTP) of scheduled home airways at Bengaluru, Delhi, Hyderabad, and Mumbai declined throughout November with passengers dealing with longer delays.

IndiGo maintained its place because the market chief with a 63.6 per cent share of air site visitors, adopted by Air India (24.4 per cent), Akasa Air (4.7 per cent) and SpiceJet (3.1 per cent). The market share of Alliance Air stayed flat at 0.7 per cent through the month.

“Passengers carried by domestic airlines during January-November 2024 were 1,464.02 lakh as against 1,382.34 lakh during the corresponding period of the previous year thereby registering an annual growth of 5.91 per cent and monthly growth of 11.90 per cent,” in keeping with the DGCA report.

Domestic air passenger site visitors was at 142.52 lakh in November in comparison with 127.36 lakh in the identical interval a 12 months in the past. The variety of flyers that took to Indian skies in Nov was additionally larger than the corresponding determine of 1.36 crore for October.

However, the On Time Performance (OTP) of scheduled home airways at Bengaluru, Delhi, Hyderabad, and Mumbai declined throughout November with passengers dealing with longer delays.

IndiGo’s OTP stood at 74.5 per cent whereas that of Akasa Air and SpiceJet touched 66.4 per cent and 62.5 per cent, respectively. The OTP of Air India and Alliance Air have been at 58.8 per cent and 58.9 per cent, respectively, the info confirmed.

The figures additionally confirmed that 2,24,904 passengers have been hit by delays in November. The airways paid up near Rs 2.9 crore in the direction of the facilitation of stranded passengers. As many as 624 passenger-related complaints have been obtained by the scheduled home airways throughout November.

A complete of three,539 passengers have been denied boarding in November and an expenditure of Rs 2.84 crore was incurred by airways for compensating and offering services to them. The figures additionally confirmed that 27,577 passengers have been affected by flight cancellations for which airways spent Rs 36.79 lakh as compensation and offering services.