India's air traffic in Jan-May up 17.6% to 24.5 mn

24 Jun 2011 Evaluate

The number of passengers carried by domestic carriers in Jan-May rose 17.6% to 24.5 million, with Jet Airways continuing to hold the largest market share. Jet, Kingfisher Airlines and IndiGo carried more than 1 million passengers each in May. Domestic traffic for the month rose to 5.4 million from 4.7 million in April. Earlier this month, Jet had announced that it flew 2 million passengers in May.  Jet Airways and its budget arm JetLite recorded market share of 26.1% for May, while Kingfisher came in second with 20%. Budget carriers IndiGo and Spice Jet had market share of 19.9% and 14.2%, respectively. State-run Air India, which is in the midst of a massive debt and operational restructuring, slipped one notch to fifth place with a share of 13.2%, hit by a pilots strike in early May. Budget carrier GoAir finished sixth with 6.6%.
 
Load factors, or the average occupancy per airline, of all six firms rose from a month earlier, as demand increased during the peak vacation season. Jet's load factors rose to 79.8% in May from 66% in April and budget arm JetLite's increased to 84.3% from 72.1%. Kingfisher's load factor rose to 88.4% from 79.8%. Air India's loads increased to 78.1% in May from 68.1%, while SpiceJet, IndiGo and GoAir had seat factors in the eighties. Air traffic has been steadily rising in India, as demand booms in an economy growing at over 8%.

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