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.