Domestic air traffic keeps soaring

Air traffic in India continued on its growth path in October with the number of passengers carried by domestic airlines increasing by over seven lakh while Jet Airways and its no-frill subsidiary JetLite gained a market share of more than 26 per cent. The total domestic passengers carried by the scheduled Indian airlines last month […]

Air traffic in India continued on its growth path in October with the number of passengers carried by domestic airlines increasing by over seven lakh while Jet Airways and its no-frill subsidiary JetLite gained a market share of more than 26 per cent.

The total domestic passengers carried by the scheduled Indian airlines last month was 46.17 lakh,compared to 39.11 lakh in September,official air traffic figures released today said.

While Jet Airways and JetLite together carried 12.13 lakh,it was followed by Kingfisher-Kingfisher Red combine with 8.77 lakh and Air India (Domestic) with 8.16 lakh.

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As in the past,no-frill carrier IndiGo flew 7.75 lakh passengers in October,Spice Jet carried 6.30 lakh and GoAir 3.06 lakh,the figures showed.

In the market share for October,Jet-JetLite combine bagged 26.2 per cent,Kingfisher 19 per cent,Air India (Domestic) 17.7,IndiGo 16.8,SpiceJet 13.6 and GoAir 6.6.

No-frill airlines IndiGo and Spicejet led the way in seat factor,or the average percentage of seats per aircraft filled during a flight,recording 86.1 per cent and 84.4 respectively while Air India (Domestic) was the lowest at 70.8 per cent,the figures showed.

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