As per The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), India’s domestic air passenger traffic record a decline of around 40 percent to 77.34 lakh in January 2021 over the year-ago period as the pandemic continues to hit air journey demand.
The total number of passengers flown by the Indian carriers on domestic routes in January 2020 was 1.27 crore.
The passenger load factor, a measure to assess how much of an airline’s passenger carrying capacity has been utilized, during the previous month has shown a declining trend compared to December primarily due to the tourist season, the DGCA mentioned.
The load factor of six major domestic airlines–IndiGo, SpiceJet, Air India, GoAir, Vistara, and AirAsia India — stood between 70 percent and 64.9 percent in January, as per data.
“Passengers carried by domestic airways during January 2021 have been 77.34 lakh against 127.83 lakh during the corresponding period of the last yr, thereby registering annual development of -39.60 percent,” it mentioned.
Budget carrier IndiGo flew the most number of passengers at 42.03 lakh with a market share of 54.30 percent adopted by rival carrier Vistara which carried 9.92 lakh passengers during the month, cornering 12.8 percent share of the total domestic traffic within the month.
IndiGo also recorded the highest on-time performance throughout the month with an average of 93.7 percent of its flights from 4 metro airports –Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, and Hyderabad –departing/arriving on time.
