NEW DELHI: Last month saw 21 lakh flying within the country \u2014 82.3% less than the 1.2 crore domestic flyers in July 2020. Schedule domestic air travel in India was allowed to resume at a one-third capacity from May 25, after a two-month suspension. Corona had started disrupting air travel from late February and consequently India has seen 3.7 crore passengers in the January-July 2020 period \u2014 down 55% from 8.2 crore in same period last year, according to DGCA data.
\nLast month saw two things happen for the first time in domestic market share \u2014 Air India\u2019s domestic market share reduce to a single digit percentage point (in terms of passengers carried) and market leader IndiGo soaring past the 60% (at 60.4%). SpiceJet is the second biggest Indian airline (by domestic market share) at 15.7% with AI a distant third at 9.1%. The two Tata JV airlines \u2014 Vistara (4.2%) and AirAsia India (6.2%) \u2014 together accounted for 10.4% domestic market share in July. Operating minuscule operations, Wadia group\u2019s GoAir saw just 3.8% market share last month.
\nBeing a lean travel month, among \u201cbig\u201d airlines SpiceJet domestic flights had the highest aircraft occupancy in July at 70%, followed by IndiGo (60.2%); AirAsia India (56.2%); Vistara (53.1%); GoAir (50.5) and AI (45.5%).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
NEW DELHI: Last month saw 21 lakh flying within the country \u2014 82.3% less than the 1.2 crore domestic flyers in July 2020. Schedule domestic air travel in India was allowed to resume at a one-third capacity from May 25, after a two-month suspension. Corona had started disrupting air travel from late February and consequently India has seen 3.7 crore passengers in the January-July 2020 period \u2014 down 55% from 8.2 crore in same period last year, according to DGCA data. Last month saw two things happen for the first time in domestic market share \u2014 Air India\u2019s domestic market […]<\/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-367713","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\/367713","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=367713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}