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Thermal power's share in India's electricity generation to fall below 70%
Updated : 4 months, 1 week ago IST
Crisil Ratings estimated that thermal power's share will decline to about 72% in the current fiscal from nearly 75% in FY25, before slipping further below the 70% mark next year. As a result, plant load factors (PLFs) of thermal power plants are projected to moderate to 64-66% in the current
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Global air travel demand increases 5.7% YoY in November 2025: IATA
Updated : 4 months, 2 weeks ago IST
International travel served as a primary driver of this growth, with demand increasing 7.7 per cent year-on-year. Capacity for international routes expanded by 7.1 per cent, while the international load factor reached a record 84 per cent. Domestic markets saw a more modest demand increase o
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India's power demand slips 5.2% in October amid unseasonal rains: Report
Updated : 6 months, 2 weeks ago IST
India's power demand slumped 5.2 per cent year-on-year in October 2025, dragged down by unseasonal rainfall and lower temperatures that reduced the need for cooling loads, according to a power sector update by Nuvama Research
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Air Arabia reports strong Q1 net profit of AED 355 million
Updated : 1 year ago IST
Air Arabia reported a strong net profit of AED 355 million in Q1 2025, marking a 34 per cent year-on-year increase. The carrier posted AED 1.75 billion in revenue and flew 4.9 million passengers, as it continued expanding its network and fleet while maintaining a high seat load factor of 84
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India's power sector anticipates healthy growth in FY2025: Demand to remai
Updated : 1 year, 12 months ago IST
According to ICRA report, the year 2024 witnessed a significant upturn in electricity demand, marked by a 7.6 per cent increase on a year-on-year basis, fueled by a resilient economic activity and weather-related loads. This trend persisted into the initial months of FY2025, with demand surg
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Etihad Airways transports 5.7 million passengers in 4 months
Updated : 2 years ago IST
Etihad Airways has published its preliminary traffic statistics for April 2024. The airline carried more than 1.4 million guests and saw its passenger load factor average out at 84 percent across the month.
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Emirates flies over 14 million passengers June-August
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
Emirates, the world’s largest international airline, marks one of its busiest summers ever, carrying over 14 million passengers with average seat load factors exceeding 80 per cent across its global network between June and August.
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Singapore Airlines posts another record quarter, expands India routes
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
Singapore Airlines (SIA) has reported another record quarter with net profits surging 98.4 per cent from a year ago to hit SGD 734 million (USD 552 million) in Q1-2023. With strong passenger demand across most of its routes, it achieved a passenger load factor (PLF) of 88.9 per cent for the
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Travel demand continues strong in April; domestic traffic fully recovered:
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
Total traffic in April 2023 (measured in revenue passenger kilometres or RPKs) rose 45.8per cent compared to April 2022. Globally, traffic is now at 90.5 per cent of pre-Covid levels. At 81.3 per cent, the industry load factor was only 1.8 percentage points below the pre-pandemic level, Inte
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India emerging as key aviation market: IATA report
Updated : 3 years ago IST
The India domestic passenger market also led the rest of the domestic markets in the passenger load factor (PLF) metric in the report which includes the US, China and Japanese domestic markets. It has been the top domestic market measured by PLF for the last four months achieving PLFs of 81.
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Civil Aviation Ministry launches UDAN 5.0 to further enhance connectivity
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
The Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA) on Friday initiated the process of inviting bids from airlines for various routes under this fifth round of bidding for its regional connectivity scheme UDAN by releasing a bid document.
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Domestic air passenger traffic went up by 47.05 per cent in 2022 compared
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
The passenger load factors of all major airlines - Air India, SpiceJet, GoFirst, IndiGo, Akasa Air, AirAsia India and Vistara witnessed an upward trend in December 2022 compared to November 2022, as per the DGCA data.
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