India's air traffic increases by just 1.6% in September: IATA

08 Nov 2019 Evaluate

Global airlines body, International Air Transport Association (IATA) has said that India's air traffic increased by just 1.6 per cent in September 2019 compared to 4.5 per cent in August this year on account of weaker economic activity.

It mentioned that following a sustained period of double-digit year-on year growth between 2015 and 2018, the pace has slowed significantly throughout 2019 amidst weaker economic activity, subdued private consumption and Jet Airways bankruptcy which disrupted the market earlier this year. Jet Airways shut down its operations on April 17 this year due to lack of funds.

It said that growth in domestic India RPKs (revenue passenger kilometres) eased to 1.6 per cent year-on-year, from 4.5 per cent observed in August. In comparison, Chinese passenger traffic grew by 8.9 per cent and 9.8 per cent in September and August, respectively.

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