MUMBAI: Domestic airlines transported 123 million passengers last year as against 83 million in the year 2021 thus registering an annual growth of 47 %, showed monthly traffic data released by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Thursday. But the number hasn’t crossed pre-Covid volumes as in the calendar year 2019, domestic airlines had flown 144 lakh passengers.
For the month of December 2022, fog disruptions were the biggest cause of schedule disruption accounting for about 81 % of flight cancellations, showed DGCA data. IndiGo had the best On-Time Performance (OTP) for the month of December, followed by Vistara, Air India and Air AsiaIndia. The OTP ranks is computed from data gathered from four metro airports, Delhi, Mumbai Bangalore and Hyderabad.
