Air passenger traffic growth crawls at 3.74% in 2019
India’s domestic airlines registered nearly 15% drop in its passenger traffic growth in the last 12 months, reflecting the trials and tribulations the civil aviation sector is passing through.
According to air passenger traffic data released by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), the domestic air traffic registered an annual growth of 3.74% in 2019 as against the 18.60% growth registered in 2018.
The domestic airlines ferried a record 14.41 crore passengers in 2019 as against the 13.89 crore in 2018.
Also, air passenger traffic grew at a mere 2.56% in December 2019 over the 11.18% growth witnessed in November on account of the festive season.
Passenger load factor, the metric the measures the percentage of seats filled by an airline, of all major airlines – Air India, SpiceJet, GoAir, IndiGo, AirAsia India and Vistara – declined in December 2019 as compared to November last year.
