Indigo guide domestic aviation sector in Jan with 54.6% market share
Indigo flew ahead of the other airlines in January with a 54.6 percent share in the domestic aviation sector; Air India and Vistara secured second and third slots respectively, with a market share of 9.2 percent and 8.8 percent.
Also, in January 2023, a total of 418 passenger-related complaints were received by scheduled domestic airlines. The number of complaints per 10,000 passengers carried for the month of January 2023 has been around 0.33.
As per the latest data of January by the aviation regulator DGCA, Indigo carried 68.47 lakh air passengers during the month of January, while Air India and Vistara carried 11.55 lakh and 11.05 lakh air passengers, respectively.
Similarly, GoAir with 10.53 lakh air passengers had a market share of 8.4 percent during January. Spicejet carried 9.14 lakh passengers with 7.3 percent of the market share in January.
As per the DGCA data released on Monday, the overall cancellation rate of scheduled domestic airlines for the month of January this year has been 1.41 percent.
The main reasons for cancellation have been identified as weather, technical or operational. A maximum of 81.1 percent of flights were canceled due to weather-related reasons and 4.8 percent of flights were canceled due to technical reasons during the month of January.
The DGCA data said that the maximum number of complaints in January were received by Alliance Air (6.9/10,000 passengers), followed by Star Air (3.7/10,000 passengers), Fly Big (1.4/10,000 passengers), Air India (1.3/10,000 passengers) and SpiceJet (0.6/10,000 passengers).
The major reasons for complaints are flight problems (27.3 percent) followed by refunds (23.7 percent) and baggage (20.6 percent).
Domestic aviation traffic continued to witness growth as passengers carried by domestic airlines during January 2023 were 125.42 lacks against 64.08 lacks during the corresponding period of the previous year.
As per the data, nearly 1.25 crore passengers were carried by the domestic airlines during January in the country, as against 64 lahks during the same period last year.
