Domestic air passenger traffic grows 2-3% to about 69 lakh in September: Icra

MUMBAI: India’s domestic air passenger traffic grew marginally 2-3 per cent at around 69 lakh in September as compared to around 67 lakh in August, credit ratings agency Icra said in a release on Wednesday.

The local carrier operated higher capacity at 54 per cent in September 2021 over the same month last year.
Compared y-o-y, air passenger traffic growth stood at around 74 per cent in the month under review over September 2020, it said.

Airlines witnessed around 61,100 departures in September as compared to 39,628 departures in the same month of 2020, it said, adding that on a sequential basis, the number of departures in the month gone by were higher by around 6 per cent, as Covid-19 infections demonstrated a downward trajectory.