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India's domestic air traffic falls 37% in February: ICRA

09 Mar 2021 Evaluate

Amid travel curbs and capacity restrictions due to the pandemic, ICRA in its latest report has said that India's domestic air traffic fell 37 per cent year-on-year to 78 lakh (7.8 million) passengers in February 2021, as compared to 1.23 crore people travelled on local routes in February 2020. It said even the sequential growth slowed down for the second consecutive month in February with a nearly flat growth over January 2021. According to DGCA data, domestic passenger traffic in January this year was recorded at 77.34 lakh.

The number of flights departing has also gradually increased from 416 on day one (May 25, 2020, when domestic operations were resumed) to 2,885 on day 267 (February 14, 2021). Kinjal Shah, Vice President, ICRA said ‘for February 2021, the average daily departures were around 2,296, significantly lower than the average daily departures of 3,137 in February 2020, though better than around 2,190 in January 2021’.

She said the average number of passengers per flight during February 2021 was 121, against an average of 136 passengers per flight in February 2020, therefore, it is expected that the domestic aviation industry operated at a passenger load factor (PLF) of around 78 per cent in February 2021, against 87.7 per cent a year ago, that too on a low capacity. She added that the PLF for February 2021 was higher than around 73 per cent in January 2021, due to the decline in capacity deployment by around 5 per cent. Overall, from May 25, 2020, till February 28, 2021, domestic passenger traffic has been pegged at around 45.6 million.

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