Demand for air travel continued its growth trajectory during the month of November, when India celebrated Diwali, by growing by 20.7% over October. The domestic aviation industry, however, continued to decline year-on-year, and fell by 50.93% during November this year as compared to the same month last year. This is an improvement over October, which had seen a decline of 57.2% over the same month last year. Domestic passenger numbers in November hit 6.4 million as compared to 5.3 million in October.
This surge in passenger demand is expected to continue during the month of December too, as people are set to travel for holidays during the year-end.
• 50.9% – Decline in number of passengers of Indian carriers in November over a year-ago period
• 6.4 Mn – Passengers carried by airlines in November 20
• 12.9 Mn – No. of passengers carried by airlines in November 19
• 5.3 Mn – No. of passengers in October
• 20.7%: Increase in number of passengers in November over October
Load factors (passengers carried per flight) in November were higher than October indicating that the increase in traffic is sustainable despite addition of new flights
Load factor for SpiceJet was highest at 77.7%.
