The air travel demand in India continues to be high with the domestic air passenger traffic registering a growth of 18.36% in the month of June 2018. According to the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) data, domestic airlines flew 113.25 lakh passengers in June, over to 95.68 lakh passengers carried in the same period last year.
The data report also showed that the domestic air passenger count has rose 21.95% during January-June 2018. Indian airlines carried 684.83 lakh passengers during period under review as against 561.55 lakh during the corresponding period of previous year. Besides, in terms of passenger load factor (PLF), SpiceJet were leading among all with 93.3% PLF during the month of June 2018, followed by Go Air (88.6%) and IndiGo (88.3%).
In terms of on time performance (OTP), IndiGo has taken again lead from the rest with 84.1% of its flights arriving and departing as per schedule from four metro airports, Mumbai, Delhi, Hyderabad and Bengaluru, followed by SpiceJet (81.2%) and Jet Airways+JetLite (78.8%). During June 2018, a total of 677 passenger related complaints had been received by the scheduled domestic airlines. The number of complaints per 10,000 passengers carried for the month of June 2018 has been around 0.60.
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