Domestic Airlines Posted Healthy Growth This Year

Continuing an upward trend, India's domestic air traffic witnessed a 22% growth between

January and April this year with airlines carrying over 1.62 crore travellers.

Between January and April, domestic airlines carried around 1.62 crore passengers as against 1.33 crore during the same period last year.

This came against the backdrop of continued downward trends witnessed in the global aviation sector since it was hit by recession and experienced negative growth since 2008.

In contrast, the scheduled Indian airlines flew a total of 41.88 lakh domestic passengers in April against 39.03 lakhs in March this year.

Of these, Jet Airways and JetLite combined carried 10.84 lakh, Kingfisher 8.98 lakh, while Air India (domestic) remained at the third spot with 7.62 lakh passengers.

Among the low cost carriers, 6.58 lakh passenger preferred to fly with IndiGo, SpiceJet carried 5.27 lakh and GoAir 2.46 lakh while all-business airline Paramount Airways carried just 13,000 passengers during April, official figures showed.

Barring Kingfisher and Paramount Airways, all other airlines witnessed a growth in their market share in April in comparison to their shares in the month of March.

Kingfisher witnessed the biggest fall in its market share from 22.6% in March to 21.4% in April, while Paramount's share dipped from 1.6% to a mere 0.3%.

Market share of Jet Airways and JetLite combine remained almost same. Its share was 25.8% in March which increased to 25.9%.

Among the gainers, market share of troubled national carrier Air India (domestic) went up from 17.6% in March to 18.2% in April, while that of IndiGo went up from 15% to 15.7%.

Similarly, SpiceJet cornered a share of 12.6% in April against 12% in March and GoAir 5.9% against 5.4%, figures showed.

by: Traveler

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