‘Domestic air travel could be 10% more than pre-Covid level this year’: Travel companies saw record profits in Oct-Dec 2022
NEW DELHI: Domestic air travel has held up so strongly in January that India is now looking at a 10% increase in number of flyers within the country over 2019. That pre-pandemic calendar year had seen the highest ever 14.4 crore domestic air travellers.
“The current trend in our domestic aviation is very exciting and if it continues, we should see our passenger numbers hitting 15.5-16 crore in CY 2023. A growth of 10% seems very much on cards,” said a top aviation official on Sunday.
DGCA data shows CY 2022 had seen 12.3 crore domestic flyers — up from 8.4 crore in 2021 and 6.3 crore in 2020 (which had seen a two-month suspension of scheduled air travel due to Covid and then a calibrated resumption).
