India’s domestic air passenger traffic grows 15 pc in May

Mumbai: The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) knowledgeable that India’s domestic air passenger traffic grew 15 per cent year-on-year to 132.67 lakh passengers in May 2023. The nation’s domestic air passenger traffic was 114.67 lakh passengers in the year-ago interval. Passengers carried by domestic airways throughout January- May 2023 had been 636.07 lakhs as towards 467.37 lakhs through the corresponding interval of the earlier yr thereby registering an annual progress of 36.10 per cent and month-to-month progress of 15.24 per cent. 

Indian Airlines Market Share

According to the DGCA report, low-cost service IndiGo elevated its market share to 61.4 per cent from 57.5 per cent through the earlier month, carrying a complete of 81.10 lakh passengers. Last month additionally noticed the grounding of city-based service Go First. Go First, which is at the moment present process insolvency proceedings on the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT), has not flown since May 3.

All three Tata Group airways — Air India, AirAsia India and Vistara (which is 49 per cent owned by Singapore Airlines) — additionally witnessed their market share rising sequentially in May 2023, cornering 9.4 per cent, 7.9 per cent and 9 per cent of the entire traffic pie, respectively.

The complete variety of passengers flown by Air India and Vistara through the month underneath evaluate stood at 12.44 lakh and 11.95 lakh, respectively. AirAsia India carried 10.41 lakh passengers in May 2023, the info confirmed. The mixed complete of those three airways was 34.8 lakh passengers, 26.3 per cent of the entire domestic air passenger traffic in May 2023. The market share of Akasa Air, which launched its air providers in August 2022, additionally rose to 4.8 per cent in the earlier month in comparison with 4 per cent in April 2023.

On punctuality parameters, Akasa Air recorded an on-time efficiency of 92.6 per cent, the best amongst all of the domestic carriers from 4 key metro airports in May, as per the info.

The total cancellation fee of scheduled domestic airways for the month of May 2023 has been 0.44 per cent.

Passenger Complaints through the month

During May 2023, a complete of 556 passenger-related complaints had been acquired by the scheduled domestic airways. The variety of complaints per 10,000 passengers carried for the month of May 2023 has been round 0.42. 

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