India’s commercial airlines flew 1.42 crore passengers on domestic routes in November this year, which represents a robust 12% increase compared to the same month in the previous year, according to figures compiled by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA). 

IndiGo maintained its position as the market leader with a 63.6% share of air traffic, followed by Air India (24.4%), Akasa Air (4.7%) and SpiceJet (3.1%). The market share of Alliance Air stayed flat at 0.7% during the month.

“Passengers carried by domestic airlines during January-November 2024 were 1,464.02 lakh as against 1,382.34 lakh during the corresponding period of the previous year thereby registering an annual growth of 5.91% and monthly growth of 11.90%,” according to the DGCA report.

Domestic air passenger traffic was at 142.52 lakh in November compared to 127.36 lakh in the same period a year ago. The number of flyers that took to Indian skies in Nov was also higher than the corresponding figure of 1.36 crore for October.

However, the On Time Performance (OTP) of scheduled domestic airlines at Bengaluru, Delhi, Hyderabad, and Mumbai declined during November with passengers facing longer delays.

IndiGo’s OTP stood at 74.5% while that of Akasa Air and SpiceJet touched 66.4% and 62.5%, respectively.

The OTP of Air India and Alliance Air were at 58.8% and 58.9%, respectively, the data showed.

The figures also showed that 2,24,904 passengers were hit by delays in November. The airlines paid up close to ₹2.9 crore towards the facilitation of stranded passengers.

As many as 624 passenger-related complaints were received by the scheduled domestic airlines during November.

A total of 3,539 passengers were denied boarding in November and an expenditure of ₹2.84 crore was incurred by airlines for compensating and providing facilities to them.

The figures also showed that 27,577 passengers were affected by flight cancellations for which airlines spent ₹36.79 lakh as compensation and providing facilities.

(This story was taken from syndicated feed and was only edited for style by Gujarat Samachar Digital team)

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