Domestic air traffic registers negative growth in April, worst in 5 years

India’s domestic air traffic registered first negative growth rate in more than five years in April, mainly due to the demise of Jet Airways, global airlines’ grouping International Air Transport Association (IATA) said Wednesday.

The country was one of the fastest growing domestic aviation markets in the world for the past many months.

The IATA, a grouping of around 290 airlines, said following a sustained period of strong double-digit Revenue Passenger Kilometre (RPK) growth, the India domestic market recorded its first negative growth rate in April since January 2014.

RPK is a measure of passenger volumes.