The seven domestic airlines flew fewer passengers in February compared with the same month last year, the latest data released by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) show.
According to DGCA’s data for February this year, the domestic airlines carried 48.92 lakh passengers or almost 3.35 per cent fewer than what they flew in the same period last year.
In January, the domestic airlines carried 51.32 lakh passengers against 53.33 lakh in the same period last year.
Market share
The data further show that in February, IndiGo continued to be the market leader commanding a market share of 27.4 per cent followed by SpiceJet (20.4 per cent) and Jet Airways (19.1 per cent). Jet Airways will increase to 25.4 per cent if the market share of its subsidiary JetLite (6.3 per cent) is combined.
Air India (domestic) had a market share of 18.9 per cent. Further in February, almost 28,000 passengers of 8.48 lakh domestic passengers flown by Air India were affected by delays of over two hours or more.This cost the airline over Rs 23 lakh.According to the data, SpiceJet was the only domestic airline that saw an increase in the number of passengers carried in February compared with January this year.
SpiceJet carried 9.98 lakh passengers in February this year up from 9.45 lakh in January.
“This increase is perhaps due to the fact that SpiceJet offered a short-term scheme from January 11-13 for travel from February to April 2013,” the DGCA has said.