June domestic air passenger traffic up 20 pc

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SME Times News Bureau | 20 Jul, 2017
Domestic air passenger traffic rose by 19.98 percent in June to 95.68 lakh from 79.75 lakh reported in June last year, official data showed on Wednesday.

On a sequential basis, total domestic air passenger traffic rose by 17.36 percent to 1.01 crore in May.

According to the data furnished by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), passenger traffic during the January-June period grew by 18.03 percent.

"Passengers carried by domestic airlines during January-June 2017 were 561.55 lakh as against 475.79 lakh during the corresponding period of previous year, a growth of 18.03 percent," the DGCA said in its monthly domestic traffic report.

Further, the data pointed out that low-cost carrier (LCC) SpiceJet had the highest passenger load factor (PLF) in June at 94.5 percent. PLF is a measure of capacity utilisation of the airline.

SpiceJet was followed by budget passenger carriers AirAsia India at 89.6 percent, GoAir at 86.4 percent and IndiGo at 87.8 percent.

"The passenger load factor in June 2017 has shown declining trend compared to previous month primarily due to the end of tourist season," the monthly report said.

Besides, the data showed that IndiGo led the industry with 86.1 percent punctuality rate at four major airports of Bengaluru, New Delhi, Hyderabad and Mumbai. It was followed by Vistara (80.8), SpiceJet (79.8) and GoAir (75.9).

The overall cancellation rate of scheduled domestic airlines for July 2017 stood at 1.68 percent.

In addition, a total of 631 passenger related complaints was received last month.

"The number of complaints per 10,000 passengers carried for the month of June has been around 0.66," the aviation regulator said.

The data revealed that IndiGo led the industry with the highest market share of 40 percent followed by Jet Airways (15.2), SpiceJet (13.3), Air India (13.1) and GoAir (8.4).

The market share of AirAsia India stood at 3.7 percent whereas full service passenger carrier Vistara's market share stood at 3.6 percent, followed by JetLite (2.3) and Trujet (0.4).