Mumbai: India's domestic air passenger traffic grew by 15 percent on a year-on-year basis to 132.67 lakh passengers in May, according to DGCA data. The country's domestic air passenger traffic was 114.67 lakh passengers in the year-ago period. Low-cost carrier IndiGo increased its market share to 61.4 percent from 57.5 percent during the previous month, carrying a total of 81.10 lakh passengers, as per the DGCA data released on Thursday. Last month also saw the grounding of city-based carrier Go First.
Go First, which is currently undergoing insolvency proceedings at the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT), has not flown since May 3. All three Tata Group airlines including, Air India, AirAsia India, and Vistara (which is 49 percent owned by Singapore Airlines) also witnessed their market share growing sequentially in May, cornering 9.4 percent, 7.9 percent and 9 percent of the total traffic pie respectively.
The total number of passengers flown by Air India and Vistara during the month under review stood at 12.44 lakhs and 11.95 lahks, respectively.
AirAsia India carried 10.41 lakh passengers in May, the data showed.
The combined total of these three airlines was 34.8 lakh passengers, 26.3 percent of the total domestic air passenger traffic in May 2023. The market share of Akasa Air, which launched its air services in August 2022, also rose to 4.8 percent in the previous month compared to 4 percent in April 2023.
On punctuality parameters, Akasa Air recorded an on-time performance of 92.6 percent, the highest among all the domestic carriers from four key metro airports in May, as per the data.
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