Indian domestic airline traffic dips by 1.1% in July: IATA

03 Sep 2012 Evaluate

With ailing performance amid slowing economy, Indian domestic air traffic have posted a decline of 1.1% in July with respect to same month of previous year. International Air Transport Association (IATA) pointed out that the July capacity rose 2.1%, dropping the load factor to 69.6% from 71.8% last year.

The cargo business posted a dip of 3.2% compared to that of previous year and the passenger market demand also pummeled from the month of June to July this year. Though the overall passenger demand is still up 3.4%,  the rising fuel prices is likely to put more pressure on airline growth in the second half of the year.

The airline association noted that the comparison with a relatively strong July last year points a larger decline, albeit the overall trend in air freight is weak, in conjunction with subdued world trade growth. It also added that the global traffic results for July dripped both in air travel and freight, but with considerable variation by region and market.

China's domestic market rebounded sharply from the slowdown earlier this year to post 9% demand growth in July, up from the 7.8% year-over-year growth seen in June. With capacity up 12.1%, load factor slipped to 84.1% from 86.5% last year.

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