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.
Passengers carried by domestic airlines during January - June 2024 stood at 793.48 lakhs as against 760.93 lakhs during the corresponding period of the previous year, registering an annual growth of 4.28 per cent and monthly growth of 5.76 per cent.
The CEA said that demand conditions are favourable, reflected in healthy passenger vehicle sales, domestic air passenger traffic, and a buoyant construction sector
Domestic air travel across India, with delays plaguing departures and cancellations adding to passenger woes. At least 22 domestic departures were delayed, while 5 flights were cancelled, impacting thousands of travellers. International travel appeared relatively unaffected. While 17 interna
The report stated that during December 2023, a total of 712 passenger-related complaints had been received by the scheduled domestic airlines. The number of complaints per 10,000 passengers carried for December 2023 has been around 0.52. The major reasons for complaints are flight problems a
Passengers carried by domestic airlines during January- December 2023 were 15.2 crores as against 12.32 crore during the corresponding period of the previous year, thereby registering an annual growth of 23.36 percent and monthly growth of 8.34 percent.
"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
According to the latest data released, domestic airlines have carried a staggering 1190.62 lakhs of passengers from January to August 2023, marking an exceptional growth rate of 38.27per cent when compared to the same period in the previous year, read the Ministry of Defence press release.
A total of 206 cases of technical snags out of a total of 338 cases were reported by Indigo Airlines, which informed the Ministry of Civil Aviation on Monday.
Binoy Viswam in a letter to Jyotiraditya Scindia said, "I write to you seeking your intervention to arrest the indiscriminate increase in domestic airfare prices across the country, and the extreme hardship caused to the ordinary citizens of the country."