India's domestic air traffic up 5.3% to 1.36 crore in October

India's home aerial rider postulation registered a 5.3 per cent summation to scope 1.36 crore successful October, from 1.26 crore successful the aforesaid period past year, according to information compiled by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA).

Leading hose IndiGo flew 86.40 lakh passengers during the period with a marketplace stock of 63.3 per cent, followed by Tata Group's Air India and Vistara, which carried 26.48 lakh and 12.43 lakh passengers, respectively.

Air India, including Air India Express, recorded a marketplace stock of 19.4 per cent, portion Vistara, which has present merged into Air India, accounted for 9.1 per cent marketplace share.

Troubled low-cost bearer SpiceJet flew 3.35 lakh passengers portion Akasa Air, transported 6.16-lakh passengers during October. The 2 airlines registered marketplace shares of 2.4 per cent and 5.4 per cent, respectively.

The surge successful aerial postulation has continued into November arsenic the civilian aviation ministry said that connected November 17, Indian skies witnessed a historical milestone with 5,05,412 home passengers departing connected a azygous day, crossing the 5 lakh-mark for the archetypal time.

The fig of formation departures was astatine 3,173, according to the latest information from the ministry. The occupancy of flights operated by the main scheduled carriers connected the time was supra 90 percent.

As acold arsenic the punctuality of airlines is concerned, IndiGo delivered the highest on-time show of 71.9 per cent during October from the 4 metro airports -- Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru and Hyderabad.

Alliance Air had the lowest OTP astatine 54.4 per cent among six large airlines of the country, DGCA figures showed.

There has besides been immoderate firm restructuring successful the Indian aviation manufacture with Vistara, earlier a 51:49 percent associated task betwixt Tata Sons and Singapore Airlines, besides merged with full-service bearer Air India connected November 12.

Singapore Airlines has stated that it volition put Rs 3,194.5 crore successful Air India pursuing the anticipated merger of Vistara with the Tata Group owned airline.

At the aforesaid time, Air India's subsidiaries, AIX Connect (formerly Air Asia) and Air India Express, person merged to signifier a azygous low-budget airline.