New Delhi: The domestic air traffic grew 11.28 percent to 1.46 crore in January compared to the year-ago period, according to official data.
IndiGo saw its market share climb to 65.2 percent while that of Air India Group declined to 25.7 percent last month.
Akasa Air and SpiceJet saw their respective market share increased to 4.7 percent and 3.2 percent.
"Passengers carried by domestic airlines during January 2025 were 146.11 lakh as against 131.30 lakh during the corresponding period of the previous year thereby registering an annual growth of 11.28 percent and monthly growth of 11.28 percent," DGCA said on Thursday.
Last month, the overall cancellation rate of scheduled domestic airlines stood at 1.62 percent, with the highest cancellation rate for Fly Big at 17.74 percent followed by Fly91 (5.09 percent) and Alliance Air (4.35 percent).
The data released by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) showed that IndiGo recorded the highest On Time Performance (OTP) at 75.5 percent while that of Akasa Air stood at 71.5 percent in January.
Air India Group's OTP was at 69.8 percent, Alliance Air at 57.6 percent and SpiceJet at 54.8 percent.
The OTP is computed for six metro airports -- Bangalore, Delhi, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Chennai and Kolkata.
In January, flight cancellations impacted 41,119 passengers and airlines shelled out Rs 46.46 lakh towards compensation and facilities.
Flight delays affected 1,78,934 passengers and airlines paid Rs 2.38 crore towards facilitation.
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