The IATA, which represents some 300 airlines comprising 83 per cent of global air traffic, said USD 290 million were stuck in Pakistan as of January, which increased by almost a third since December.
Indian carriers continue to increase the market share in the international aviation sector, with countries in Africa, and the Middle East region accounting for more than half of India's total inbound as well as outbound passengers.
Passengers carried by Indian domestic airlines during January 2023 were 125.42 lakhs, as against 64.08 lakhs during the corresponding period of the previous year.
A Kandla-bound SpiceJet flight from Mumbai returned to the airport because of a cabin 'pressurisation alert', the airline's spokesperson said on Saturday.
Domestic air traffic has again picked up pace during the current financial year 2022-23, and is expected to reach around 97 per cent of the pre-Covid level, said General (Rtd) VK Singh, Minister of State for Civil Aviation, on Thursday.
After all flights got grounded across the US, the Transport Secretary of the US, Pete Buttigieg on Wednesday said that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is working to resolve the issue of system outage which resulted and assured that air traffic would soon resume normal operations.
An aviation expert on Wednesday said that the grounding of all flights across the US was important to avoid any accidents because Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is a monitoring system for all airports in the country.
Air India on Wednesday said that it is in touch with the relevant authority after flights across the US were grounded due to a technical glitch in the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) computer system.