Global airlines’ body the International Air Transport Association (IATA) has stated that India's domestic air passenger traffic surged by 20.3% in June as compared to the corresponding month of the previous year, the highest among major aviation markets like Australia, Brazil, China, Japan, Russia and the US. The demand is measured in terms of total revenue passenger kilometres or RPKs.
IATA has mentioned that domestic India RPKs surged by 18.6% in year-on-year terms in H1 2017, with annual RPK posting its 34th consecutive month of double-digit growth in June. However, it noted that the growth in the first half of 2017 was slightly slower than the year ago period. It also pointed out that the very strong upward traffic trend has slowed since the country’s unexpected demonetisation move in November 2016.
Global airline association further said that RPKs are still currently trending upwards, albeit at a slower annualised rate of around 7 percent. It added that domestic India's impressive run of double-digit year-on-year growth looks likely to have ended in July.
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