While the Indian economy is witnessing a slowdown, more passengers flew in November 2019 as compared to the period last year with passenger growth witnessing a 3.86% growth on-year and 11.2% jump on-month. “The passenger load factor in the month of trend compared to previous month primarily due to the onset of tourist season,” aviation watchdog DGCA said on Thursday. From January-November 2019, 13.1 crore passengers were carried as opposed to 12.6 crore carried in the same period last year. Further, budget carrier IndiGo continued to maintain its winning streak and carried the largest number of passengers in November as well. With close to half the market share of Indian aviation, IndiGo alone has carrier almost one in every two passengers. SpiceJet and Air India followed at 16.1% and 12.1% respectively.
