India Domestic air traffic up 21 per cent

Air travelling passengers in the country increased by 21.33 % in January over the year-ago interval despite the domestic air lines clocking a reduced seat aspect.

All Indian air accrues  mixed together ferried 62.45 lakh tourists in the confirming 30 days as compared to 57.47 lakh tourists carried by them in January 2014, according to data released by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) here today.

During the month, budgte airline offering domestic air tickets, IndiGo cornered 36.4 % of the complete domestic visitors, carrying 22.76 lakh brochures in January 2015. The fill aspect of the air journey during this interval was standing at 85.2 %.

Jet Air passage and Air Indian local went 12.25 lakh and 11.65 lakh tourists respectively, cornering 19.6 per and 18.7 % of the complete pie.

The business of the SpiceJet, however, went down significantly to 9.7 % after the service provider terminated a large slice of its flight tickets amongst cash crisis during the 30 days.

Interestingly, Tata-SIA partnership service provider Vistara, which was released in January, managed to fill only 45.4 % chairs on its airplane in the first month of its operations.

As against this, Jet Airways clocked 87.4 % fill aspect followed by national air service provider Air India, which had 82.4 % of its airplane chair filled during January.

Cheap domestic air tickets are easily available for bookings with the top airlines of India. The increased competition of airlines has brought in the bets of prices, services and facilities for air travel passengers.