In a big push to the Indian aviation sector, country's domestic air traffic registered a growth of 20.52 percent in October when airlines flew 10.45 million passengers as compared to 8.67 million during the corresponding period last year. It was for the first time, the air travel volume breached the 10 million mark in October.
According to the monthly traffic data released by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), market leader IndiGo ferried the maximum number of passengers at 4.13 million, 39.5 percent of the entire domestic aviation market. It was followed by Jet Airways with 1.58 million passengers and SpiceJet with 1.36 million. IndiGo, increased its market share of scheduled domestic flights in the month of October as most other airlines saw a marginal decline. Market share of IndiGo stood at 39.5 percent in the month as compared to 38.2 percent in the month of September. The market share of Air India stood at 13.1 percent, which is slightly lower than the month before, while the same for Jet Airways decreased to 15.2 percent from 15.4 percent in August. SpiceJet, the country’s second-largest low-cost carrier, reported a 13.1 percent market share, which is lower than 13.8 percent during the month before.
In other performance metrics, SpiceJet reported the highest passenger load factor (PLF) or seat utilisation for the month of September at 93.7 percent, followed by GoAir at 87.6 percent and IndiGo at 87.3 percent and AirAsia 83 percent. IndiGo reported the best on-time performance (OTP) among all the airlines at 83.9 per cent at the four airports in Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad and Bengaluru. SpiceJet took the second spot reporting an OTP of 83.3 per cent followed by Air India (domestic) (77.2 per cent) and Vistara at 75.6 per cent.
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