New Delhi: Low-cost private airline IndiGo, with 31 per cent market share, continued to be the leader of the Indian skies, followed by Jet Airways and its subsidiaries which garnered 21.7 per cent of the market and state-run carrier Air India was third with an 18.4 per cent share of the market in the year that just went by as per the latest data released on Monday by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA).
According to the data, domestic air traffic grew by 9.7 per cent last year compared to 2013, driven by a the fare wars that the airlines have launched to woo passengers.
Together Indian carriers carried 673.83 lakh passengers in the previous year as against 614.26 lakh flown by them in 2013.
Of this, private airlines carried 549.58 lakh passengers or 81.6% of the total passenger traffic. Air India transported 124.25 lakh passengers during the reporting period.
20/01/15 New Indian Express
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According to the data, domestic air traffic grew by 9.7 per cent last year compared to 2013, driven by a the fare wars that the airlines have launched to woo passengers.
Together Indian carriers carried 673.83 lakh passengers in the previous year as against 614.26 lakh flown by them in 2013.
Of this, private airlines carried 549.58 lakh passengers or 81.6% of the total passenger traffic. Air India transported 124.25 lakh passengers during the reporting period.
20/01/15 New Indian Express
