New Delhi, India: In the recent data shared by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Friday (July 22) for the month of June 2022 shows a strong comeback in domestic air traffic and much near to pre-pandemic levels, the volume of passengers travelling on domestic airlines in June only 12.6% lower compared to the same month in 2019.
In June, the domestic airlines flew 10.51 million passengers on local routes as against 12.02 million in the corresponding month three years back, resulting in a dip of 12.6%. Sequentially, the traffic fell 13% during the month from 12.08 million in May, which according to Icra, was primarily due to the seasonality impact related to the re-opening of schools.
May traffic of 12.08 million passengers was very close to the traffic that was witnessed in May 2019 at 12.2 million.
Passengers carried by domestic airlines during Jan-Jun 2022 were 57.24 million as against 34.33 million during the corresponding period of the previous year thereby registering an annual growth of 66.73 % and monthly growth of 237.65 %.
IndiGo carried 5.98 million passengers in June as against 6.38 million in May. SpiceJet flew 1 million passengers in comparison to 1.15 million during the preceding month. Go First’s volumes fell from 1.28 million in May to 0.99 million in June. However, Vistara improved from 0.98 million in May to 0.99 million in June.
As the market share is concerned, IndiGo enhanced from 55.6% in May to 56.9% in June, SpiceJet’s plunged from 10% to 9.5% and Go First from 11.1% to 9.5%. Vistara grew from 8.6% in May to 9.4% in June.
The On-Time Performance (OTP) of scheduled domestic airlines for four metro airports — Bangalore, Delhi, Hyderabad and Mumbai — showed that for the month of June, AirAsia’s OTP was at 89.8 per cent, followed by Vistara at 86.4 per cent, IndiGo at 84.5 per cent, Air India at 83.1 per cent, SpiceJet at 79.4 per cent, Go First at 76 per cent, and Alliance Air at 66.4 per cent.