Domestic air traffic soars 20% in June
Domestic air passenger traffic grew 20% in June from a year earlier. Airlines flew 95.8 million passengers last month compared with 79.7 million the year before, data from Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) shows.
The April-June period is considered the peak season for airlines along with the October-December quarter as schools are shut for summer vacations, boosting leisure travel.
Among the major carriers, IndiGo retained the largest market share of 40%, followed by Jet Airways (India) Ltd at 17.5%, SpiceJet Ltd’s 13.3%, Air India’s 13.1%, and GoAir’s 8.4%. AirAsia clocked 3.7% and Vistara 3.6%.
IndiGo also had the highest cancellation rate of 3.34% followed by Air India’s 1.62%, SpiceJet’s 0.28%, GoAir’s 0.27% and Jet Airways 0.15%.
“The overall cancellation rate of scheduled domestic airlines for the month of Jun 2017 has been 1.68%,” DGCA said in its report.
SpiceJet had the highest passenger load factor of 94.5%, followed by 89.4% for GoAir, IndiGo at 87.8% and Vistara at 86.4%.
IndiGo’s clocked the highest 86.1% on-time performance at the four metro airports of Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad and Bengaluru.
Vistara took the second spot reporting an on-time performance of 80.8% followed by SpiceJet at 79.8% and Go Air at 75.9%.
Airlines paid over ₹ 2 crore to more than 99,500 passengers affected by cancellations, delays and those who were denied boarding in June this year.