Nine per cent growth in domestic airline traffic in January: Data

NEW DELHI: Domestic airlines in the country reported passenger traffic growth of 9 per cent in January this year, the lowest for the month in last five years.

The airlines carried a total 1.25 crore passengers in January 2019, according to the data released by the Directorate General of Civic Aviation on Wednesday.

In January 2018, domestic air passenger traffic was 1.14 crore, but the percentage growth over the same month in the previous year (2017) was much higher at 19.7 per cent.