India Witnesses 18 Percent Domestic Air Traffic Growth in June: DGCA

1.13 crore passengers were ferried by the domestic airlines during the month

Written by: India.com News Desk

Published: July 18, 2018, 9:50 PM IST

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New Delhi, Jul 18: The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has claimed that India’s domestic air passenger traffic grew by 18.36 percent in June. The official data showed that 1.13 crore passengers were ferried by the domestic airlines during the month under review from 95.68 lakh reported during the corresponding month of 2017.

However, on a sequential basis, the traffic grew by around 5.04 percent. It had risen to 1.19 crore in May 2018, while in April it had grown to 1.15 crore.  As per the data furnished by the DGCA, the passenger traffic during the January-June 2018 period grew by 22 percent.

“Passengers carried by domestic airlines during January-June 2018 were 684.83 lakhs as against 561.55 lakhs during the corresponding period of previous year thereby registering a growth of 21.95 percent,” the DGCA said in its monthly domestic traffic report.

The data disclosed that low-cost carrier SpiceJet had the highest passenger load factor (PLF) — a measure of capacity utilization of the airline — at 93.3 percent during June. SpiceJet was followed by GoAir with a PLF of 88.6 percent, IndiGo at 88.3 percent and Vistara at 84.8 percent.

The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), in its latest traffic data for May, had said that domestic air passenger traffic grew 16.53 percent to 11.86 million during the month over the same period a year ago. Twelve domestic airlines together flew 11.85 million passengers as compared to 10.17 million passengers in May last year, the DGCA said.

(With PTI inputs)