Feb saw marginal growth in domestic air traffic

Marginal growth of less than one per cent in domestic air traffic was witnessed in February compared to the same month last year, with IndiGo and Jet Airways-JetLite combine ruling the market share.
In spite of a series of promotional fare offers by most of the airlines starting January, the air traffic growth of 0.69 per cent the next month was minor.
Air India, with a market share of 9.62 lakh passengers, was behind IndiGo and Jet-JetLite which carried 14.64 lakh and 11.92 lakh passengers respectively last month, the latest official data on air traffic said today.
While SpiceJet carried 8.85 lakh passengers last month, GoAir flew 4.27 lakh and new regional airline Air Costa 16,000.

Overall, the number of passengers carried by domestic airlines during Jan-Feb 2014 stood at 100.93 lakh as against 100.24 lakh during the corresponding period of previous year, thereby registering a growth of 0.69 per cent.
GoAir and JetLite had the highest passenger load factors (or average percentage of seats occupied on a flight) of 77.3 and 76.4 per cent respectively.
IndiGo and Air India were neck-and-neck with load factors of 75.5 and 75.1 per cent respectively, while Jet had a load factor of 72.3 per cent, SpiceJet 70.9 and Air Costa 71.6.