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Domestic air passenger volume rises 9.10% during January
Feb-20-2019

The domestic air passenger count has gone up by 9.10% in the month of January 2019. According to the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) data, domestic airlines flew 125.08 lakh passengers in January 2019, as against 114.65 lakh passengers carried in the same month of last year.

In terms of passenger load factor (PLF), SpiceJet reported 90.9% PLF during the month of January 2019, followed by Air Asia (88.4%), Go Air (87.4%), IndiGo (86.4%) and Jet Airways (86.1%). The passenger load factor in the month of January 2019 has shown decreasing trend compared to previous month due to the end of tourist season. Further, the overall cancellation rate of scheduled domestic airlines for the reported month has been 1.81%.

In terms of on time performance (OTP), Go Air has taken lead from the rest with 75.9% of its flights arriving and departing as per schedule from four metro airports, Mumbai, Delhi, Hyderabad and Bengaluru, followed by Vistara (75.3%) and Spicejet (69.2%). During January 2019, a total of 917 passenger related complaints had been received by the scheduled domestic airlines. The number of complaints per 10,000 passengers carried for the month of January 2019 has been around 0.73.

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