Air traffic in India continues to rise

Friday, 16 July 2010, 21:03 IST
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New Delhi: Air traffic in India continued to show a marked improvement since the financial downturn in the past two years, with total passengers carried recording about 135 lakh in the second quarter, compared with over 118 lakh in the first. Jet Airways and its subsidiary JetLite together garnered the largest chunk of passengers flying 35.28 lakh, followed by Kingfisher at 28.42 lakh and Air India (Domestic) 23.69 lakh, official figures released on Thursday said. Closely following them was no-frill carrier IndiGo at 21.48 lakh and SpiceJet with 17.57 lakh. While GoAir flew 7.88 lakh, Paramount carried 45,000 only, primarily due to lack of aircraft in their fleet. In June, the total domestic passengers carried by scheduled Indian airlines were 45.04 lakh, the figures showed. Here again, Jet and JetLite combine flew about 12 lakh people. In terms of percentage share of the carriers in the second quarter this year, Jet-JetLite bagged 26.2 per cent, Kingfisher 21.1, Air India (Domestic) 17.6, IndiGo 15.9, SpiceJet 13, Paramount 0.3 and GoAir 5.8. On the issue of how many seats were filled on an average by the aircraft of these airlines, both no-frill airlines, IndiGo and SpiceJet, topped the list registering 90.7 and 88.5 per cent respectively. They were followed by Paramount with 86.8 per cent, Kingfisher with 85.1, GoAir 84, JetLite 83.6, Jet 80.5 and Air India 72.3, the figures showed. In the data relating to the maximum number of complaints lodged by passengers against these airlines, Jet Airways and JetLite topped the list with the maximum number of complaints at 9.2 and 4 per 10,000 passengers in June. The lowest number of complaints were received by Air India at one against every 10,000 passengers. In all, eight domestic airlines together received 1,617 complaints from passengers against their services in June with an industry average of 3.7 complaints per 10,000 passengers.
Source: PTI