Amid improving regional connectivity with the government’s ‘Ude Desh ka Aam Naagrik’ (UDAN) scheme, the domestic air passenger count has gone up by 24.41% during January-April 2018. According to the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) data, Indian carriers carried 453.03 lakh passengers during period under review as against 364.13 lakh during the corresponding period of previous year.
The data report also showed that domestic airlines flew 115.13 lakh passengers in April, registering a growth of 26.05%, over to 91.34 lakh passengers carried in the same period last year. Besides, in terms of passenger load factor (PLF), SpiceJet were leading among all with 95.5% PLF during the month of April 2018, followed by IndiGo (91.9) and GoAir (89.5).
In terms of on time performance (OTP), IndiGo has taken lead from the rest with 86.6% of its flights arriving and departing as per schedule from four metro airports, Mumbai, Delhi, Hyderabad and Bengaluru, followed by SpiceJet and GoAir (86.1% each).