Rating agency ICRA in its latest report has said that domestic air passenger traffic jumped 57 percent to around 49 lakh in July 2021 as compared to June this year when it was about 31.1 lakh, reflecting a significant sequential as well as year-on-year growth amid a decline in coronavirus infections. As against June 2020, the growth is 132 percent.
According to the report, airlines' capacity deployment for July was around 90 per cent higher than July 2020. There were around 47,200 departures last month compared to 24,770 departures in the year-ago period. On a sequential basis, it said the number of departures in July 2021 were higher by around 49 per cent as COVID infections demonstrated a downward trajectory. For July 2021, the average daily departures were at around 1,500, significantly higher than the average daily departures of about 800 in July last year. In June this year, it was at about 1,100. The average number of passengers per flight during July 2021 was 104, against an average of 98 passengers per flight in June 2021.
The report noted that though the recovery continued in July 2021, there is continued stress on demand, driven largely by the second wave of the pandemic, limiting travel to only necessary travel, while both leisure and business travel have been curtailed due to various state-wide restrictions, despite the decline in infections. It also said rising Aviation Turbine Fuel (ATF) prices pose a near-term challenge for the airlines.
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