India’s domestic air passenger traffic grew 5.76 percent to 13.2 million in June from 12.4 million in the same month last year, according to official data.
Budget carrier IndiGo continued its status as the largest Indian airline by market share, cornering 60.5 percent market share last month, according to the country’s aviation regulator DGCA’s monthly data.
Tata Group-run airlines Air India and Vistara figured in the second and third spots, with 13.1 percent and 9.6 percent market shares, respectively.
AIX Connect (erstwhile AirAsia India), which is also a part of the Tata Group, ferried 7.70 lakh passengers in the previous month to garner a market share of 5.8 percent, PTI reported.
All three Tata Group airlines taken together accounted for 28.5 percent of the total domestic passenger traffic last month, according to the data.
Akasa Air, a relatively new airline, delivered the highest on-time performance (OTP) from the four metro airports – Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru and Hyderabad – at 79.5 percent during June 2024, while SpiceJet recorded the lowest OTP at 46.1 percent among seven major airlines of the country, according to DGCA.
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