Jet effect: International air travel grows just 1%

NEW DELHI: International air travel to and from India in the first six months of this year has grown by just 1%. The collapse of Jet Airways — which had been the biggest airline in terms of flying people in and out of the country over past few years — this April saw 1% decline in international air travel in April-June.

However, the reasonable growth in January-March period over same quarter last year meant that the first half of this year still saw 3.7 lakh (about 1.1%) more international travellers than 3.2 crore in the first six months of 2018. A far cry from the 14.7% growth that the first half (H1) of 2018 had seen over same period in previous year.