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New Delhi: Domestic airlines in India registered a growth of 23.17% in passengers carried between January and September this year compared to the corresponding period last year.

Passengers carried by domestic airlines during Jan-Sept 2016 were 726.98 lakh as against 590.21 lakh during the corresponding period of 2015.

In terms of Passenger Load Factor, Spicejet was on top during the two successive months – August (93.2%) and September (93.5) this year. Go Air was second with a pax load factor of 86% and 89.4%, Air Asia was third with a PLF of 83.3% and 82.8% and IndiGo was fourth with a PLF of 82.1% and 82.1% and close on heels in the fifth place was Jet Airways with PLF of 81.7% and 79.9% during this period. Air India, the national carrier performed way behind with a PLF of 77.7% and 79% in comparison with Spicejet.

When it comes to market share of scheduled domestic airlines during the year 2016, IndiGo was on top commanding a market share of 37%, 38.4% and 39.9% respectively during the three quarters this year. Air India was third in this respect behind Jet Airways.

During September 2016, a total of 728 passenger related complaints had been received by the scheduled domestic airlines. The number of complaints per 10,000 passengers carried for the month of September 2016 has been 0.9. The maximum passenger related complaints have been received by Air India (Domestic) and Jet Airways + Jetlite airline.

The airline-wise details are as follows:

On-Time Performance (OTP) of scheduled domestic airlines has been computed for four metro airports viz. Bangalore, Delhi, Hyderabad and Mumbai. Vistara is ranked at the first place when it comes to on time performance with 89.6 OTP%, followed by Spicejet (88.8%) and Indigo (87.7%)

Airline-wise OTP at four metro airports for the month of Sept 2016 is as follows:

Based on Report released by the Ministry of Civil Aviation on 19 October 2016.

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Lalit Shastri

Indigo with a market share of 27.26 per cent and Jet Airways with a market share of 14.32 per cent, are ahead of Air India, which commanded 12.23 per cent of the market share of scheduled domestic airlines in January 2016

During January 2016, a total of 823 passenger related complaints had been
received by the scheduled domestic airlines–the maximum by Air India in the domestic sector. The number of complaints per 10,000 passengers carried for the month of January 2016 has been 1.1.

The airline-wise details are as follows:

Comparison of passenger load factors of various scheduled domestic airlines in Jan 2016 shows that in the case of Air India it went up from 81.7 per cent in December 2015 to 86.7 per cent in January 2016 whereas spicejet maintained a PLF of 92.1 per cent in December 2015 as well as January this year. In the same period the PLF of Jet was 82.5 and 83.8 while the PLF of Go Air was 84.9 and 86.5 in the same period.

Vistara, which received the least number of passenger complaints in January also tops the chart when it comes to on time performance (OTP) at four metro airports in the country

On-Time Performance (OTP) of scheduled domestic airlines has been computed
for four metro airports viz. Bangalore, Delhi, Hyderabad and Mumbai. Airline-wise OTP
at four metro airports for the month of January 2016 is as follows:

Due to extreme professionalism, the scheduled airlines in the domestic sector together carried most of the domestic passengers in January this year. In terms of total domestic passengers carried by the scheduled airlines, the percentage share of Air India is 16 per cent while that of the private carriers, it is 84 per cent.

If one takes into consideration the month-wise seat factor (passenger load factor in percentage) of scheduled airlines operating the domestic sector in India for January 2016, Spice Jet is on top with 92.1 per cent followed by Go Air, 84.9, Indigo 84.7, Air Costa, 84, Air Pagasus, 83.8, True Jet 83.4, Jet Airways and Jet Lite 82.5, Air Asia 81.9, and at the bottom are Air India with 81.7 per cent and Vistara with 74.8 per cent.

Indigo with a market share of 27.26 per cent and Jet Airways with a market share of 14.32 per cent, are ahead of Air India, which commanded just 12.23 per cent of the market share of scheduled domestic airlines in January 2016

Passengers carried by domestic airlines during Jan 2016 were 76.55 lakhs as
against 62.45 lakhs during the corresponding period of previous year thereby registering a growth of 22.58%