Domestic air traffic growth slows to 5.4% in January-February

Domestic air traffic growth slowed to 5.42% year-on-year (y-o-y) during the first two months of 2020, 200 basis points lower than the growth a year ago. Domestic airlines carried 2.51 crore passengers during January-February. However, analysts fear the February data is not fully indicative of the massive disruption caused by the outbreak of the novel coronavirus in the aviation sector, and airlines would have to take significant measures to cope.