Domestic air passenger traffic grows 7.3% in July: DGCA
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The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) in its latest data has showed that India's domestic air passenger traffic grew 7.3 per cent to 129.87 lakh in July 2024 from 121 lakh in the same month last year. However, the air traffic in July was lower compared to 132.06 lakh people carried by the domestic airlines in June this year. Passengers carried by domestic airlines during January-July 2024 were 923.35 lakh as against 881.94 lakh during the corresponding period of the previous year thereby registering an annual growth of 4.70 per cent and monthly growth of 7.33 per cent.
During the reporting month, budget carrier IndiGo continued to dominate domestic air traffic with its market share rising to 62 per cent in July while that of Air India dropped to 14.3 per cent. In July 2024, the domestic market share of Vistara climbed to 10 per cent while that of AIX Connect and SpiceJet declined to 4.5 per cent and 3.1 per cent, respectively. Also, Akasa Air and Alliance Air's share slipped to 4.7 per cent and 0.9 per cent, respectively.
The data also showed that 1,114 passengers were denied boarding and airlines doled out Rs 112.71 lakh towards compensation and facilities. As many as 1,54,770 passengers were affected by cancellations and carriers spent Rs 110.59 lakh for compensation and facilities in this regard. On account of flight delays, 3,20,302 passengers were impacted in July and airlines shelled out Rs 341.05 lakh towards facilitation. In July 2024, the overall cancellation rate of the airlines touched 1.90 per cent.
