Domestic air traffic grows by 64.61% this year

New Delhi: According to the most recent data provided by the DGCA, domestic air travel climbed by 64.61 percent annually and 46.54 percent monthly, with 8.74 crore people travelling domestically from January to September as opposed to 5.31 crore during the same period in 2021.

According to the report, domestic airlines carried about 1.03 crore passengers in September, compared to 70.66 lakh during the same period the previous year. The newly launched Akasa Air marked an 81.2 per cent occupancy last month.

SpiceJet recorded the highest occupancy of 85.8 per cent, followed by at 81.4 per cent, Air India at 77 per cent and GoFirst at 83.2 per cent.

Industry sources said that the number of Covid cases has recorded a downward trend in the last couple of weeks resulting in the restoration of normalcy in aviation traffic.

Recently, the aviation regulator announced the removal of lower and upper limits on airfares in the country.

It was done after discussions on removing the fare bands for domestic airfares were held among stakeholders, including government authorities and airlines.

Carriers were of the view that removal of the pricing caps is required for the full-fledged recovery of domestic air traffic.

With inputs from IANS