Indian Domestic Flight passengers traffic raised upto 19.3 percent in 6 months

The Civil Aviation of India stated Indian Domestic air passengers’ traffic grew over 19 percent from January to August of this year as against the same period last year. With increasing opportunity of airlines, travel agents and online booking portal (Flights Cheapest) websites in delivering cheapest airfares, there seems a high increase of air passengers in just 6 months. The numbers of passengers carried by Indian domestic airlines from January-August, 2010 were 33.9 crores as against the 28.42 crores in the corresponding period of year 2009 which registered a remarkable growth of over 19.3 percent.

Though there was a marginal fall from 40.84 lakhs in August to 39.89 lakhs in July in the domestic passengers’ traffic. The total domestic passengers carried by the scheduled Airlines of India in the month of August, 2010 were 39.89 lakhs. It may be recalled that the total domestic passengers carried by the Scheduled Airlines of India in the month of July, 2010 were 40.84 lakhs.

The Break-up for the month of August, 2010 is as follows: -
Air India (Domestic) - 7.30 lakhs, Kingfisher - 7.97 lakhs, Jet Airways

-7.79 lakhs, IndiGo - 6.56 lakhs, Jet Lite - 2.99 lakhs, Spice Jet - 5.02 lakhs, Go Air - 2.26 lakhs,

The percentage share of the carriers in the month of August, 2010 is as follows:
Air India (Domestic) - 18.3pc , Jet Airways - 19.5pc , Kingfisher - 20.0pc , Indigo - 16.4pc Spice Jet-12.6pc , Jet Lite - 7.5pc and Go Air - 5.7 pc.

The seat factor of the domestic airlines in the month of August, 2010 was:
Air India (Domestic) - 65.5pc , Jet Airways - 70.4pc , Kingfisher Airlines - 80.9pc , JetLite - 73.2pc , Spice Jet - 70.3pc , Go Air -72.0pc and IndiGo - 74.5pc .

Kingfisher leads the race of carrying 7.97 lakh passengers , the national carrier Air India carrying 7.30 lakh passengers, while Jet Airways and its low cost airlines Lite flew 7.79 lakh and 2.99 lakh passengers respectively.

Flight fares may double at Mumbai

Mumbai as we all know is the gateway to India, whether by water or by air. But in coming months, passengers and airlines will have to suffer this winter discontent for flying in and out of Mumbai. With the constraint of Mumbai’s main runway, the Airport Authority of India (AAI) has decided to close it for repairs for another 6 months on forth coming winters and the number of flights would be slashed. As a result, airlines have warned the price/fares for tickets would rise by up to 50%, starting from the month of September. But some travel portal sites are still offering cheapest airfares to any city in India.

Certainly, the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport (CSIA) of holding passengers (arriving and departing) would drop down which will double the fares on reduced capacity and gradually would occur higher demand. A lot of travel agency and travel portal sites are selling their tickets till next summer, but it is equally not decided which all airlines would be axed or reschedule, finding cheapest flights on internet would be harder and for travel agents too to sell off the tickets on coming months for Mumbai flights.

With the main runway closing down, with entire burden would be brought down to the second runaway of Mumbai and a huge challenge for the authority to how they would tackle the situation. Again, with the cross runaway at the CSIA airport, 32 flights movement can be handle but with the main runaway getting closure it would allow only 26 movements only for an hour.