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 \u2014 which had been the biggest airline in terms of flying people in and out of the country over past few years \u2014 this April saw 1% decline in international air travel in April-June.
\nHowever, 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.
\nProvisional April-June 2019 figures for international air travel of the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) show the huge impact Jet\u2019s April 17 closure had on international travel in the April-June quarter. Indian carriers flew 11.5% less people into India (over same period last year) and the decline in flying travellers out was 12.3%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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 \u2014 which had been the biggest airline in terms of flying people in and out of the country over past few years \u2014 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. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-297642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}