New Delhi: Domestic air passenger traffic slipped 4.80 percent to 1.20 crore in July from 1.26 crore recorded in the year-ago month, with all major Indian airlines seeing a drop in the load factor, DGCA data released on Thursday showed.

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Passengers carried by domestic airlines during January-July 2026 increased to 984.03 lakh against 977.79 lakh a year ago, thereby registering an annual growth of 0.64 percent, according to the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA).

Gurugram-based IndiGo carried 80.82 lakh passengers during the previous month against 89.20 lakh in June; Tata Sons-owned Air India group flew 28.75 lakh passengers during the reporting period compared to 32.22 lakh in June 2026, DGCA data showed.

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The total number of passengers transported by Akasa Air stood at 6.65 lakh in July against 8.61 lakh in June.

Passenger volumes at SpiceJet were seen at 1.87 lakh in the previous month against 2.63 lakh passengers in June, it said.

IndiGo raised its market share in the previous month to 67.4 percent from 66.3 percent, and Air India group market share also rose marginally to 24 percent from 23.9 percent in June.

Akasa and SpiceJet saw their market share falling to 5.5 percent (from 6.4 percent) and 1.6 percent (from 1.9 percent) in June, according to data.

In on-time performance, IndiGo had the highest percentage of its flights (91.2 percent) departing and arriving on time, followed by Akasa Air (90.8 percent) to and from 10 domestic airports -- Bengaluru, Delhi, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, Ahmedabad, Cochin, Guwahati and Lucknow -- during the previous month, according to the aviation safety regulator.

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