International air traffic growth is expected to outpace domestic traffic growth during the same period, supported by the addition of wide-body aircraft fleets for the domestic carriers from FY26 onwards.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday asked the authorities to consider modifying the existing guidelines in accordance with the international norms to deal with unruly air passengers.
Indian skies witnessed a historic milestone with 505,412 domestic air passengers departing on a single day last Sunday, crossing the 5 lakh mark for the first time.
The domestic air passenger traffic in India experienced a 7 per cent year-on-year (YoY) increase in July 2024, reaching 1.30 crore passengers, according to the data by Director General of Civil Aviation.
Around 3.7 million people travelled internationally and 9.7 million on domestic routes, as per Mumbai International Airport Limited (MIAL), which operates the CSMIA.
India's aviation sector has improved a lot under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi says Sumesh Patel, President of SITA, Asia pacific in an exclusive conversation with ANI.
A 42-year-old male passenger travelling in an IndiGo flight on Tuesday was arrested by the Mumbai police for smoking beedi onboard.
An air passenger had such a craving for smoking that he lit a beedi in the plane and started smoking it. When the crew member of IndiGo airline came to know a
The CEA said that demand conditions are favourable, reflected in healthy passenger vehicle sales, domestic air passenger traffic, and a buoyant construction sector
"The aviation sector has become accessible to the people, to the common man. We are the 3rd-largest domestic aviation market in the world today. The number of domestic passengers has increased two and a half times since we took over from UPA. It was 60 million domestic passengers, which has
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) in its recent report stated that flight problems, baggage and refunds were the major issues out of the 246 passenger complaints received by the scheduled domestic airlines in September.
Full body scanners will soon be installed at Delhi, Mumbai and other airports as manpower with technology is required to deal with the rising number of air passengers at all airports in the country, said Zulfiquar Hasan, director general of the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) on Mon