Domestic air passenger traffic rises 5.3% to 1.36-crore in October; Indigo corners 63.3% share

India's home aerial rider postulation grew 5.3 per cent to 1.36 crore successful October from 1.26 crore successful the aforesaid period past year, aviation regulator DGCA's monthly information showed connected Tuesday.

During the reporting month, fund bearer IndiGo carried 86.40 lakh passengers, clocking a marketplace stock of 63.3 per cent, followed by Tata Group-run Air India and Vistara, which flew 26.48- lakh and 12.43-lakh travellers, respectively.

Air India numbers see the fig of passengers flown by its low-cost limb Air India Express, arsenic per data. Air India merged its subsidiary AIX Connect with its low-cost planetary fund limb Air India Express connected October 1 this year.

The merged entity named arsenic Air India Express present operates arsenic the low-cost limb of Air India.

The marketplace stock of Air India (including Air India Express) during October 2024 stood astatine 19.4 per cent, portion that of Vistara astatine 9.1 per cent, arsenic per the Directorate General of Civil Aviation data.

Vistara, earlier a 51:49 per cent associated task betwixt Tata Sons and Singapore Airlines, besides merged with full-service bearer Air India connected November 12.

The 2 Tata Group airlines (Air India and Vistara) taken unneurotic accounted for 28.5 per cent of the full home rider postulation past month, according to data.

At the aforesaid time, SpiceJet flew 3.35 lakh passengers portion Akasa Air, transported 6.16-lakh passengers successful the erstwhile month, accounting for 2.4 per cent and 5.4 per cent successful the wide home rider postulation successful October 2024, the DGCA information showed.

IndiGo delivered the highest on-time show from the 4 metro airports -- Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru and Hyderabad -- astatine 71.9 per cent during the erstwhile month, portion the government-run Alliance Air had the lowest OTP astatine 54.4 per cent among six large airlines of the country, according to DGCA.