India's domestic air passenger traffic surged by over 24 per cent to 161.31 lakh in the February this year over the same period of 2015 even as the number of flyers declined when compared to January 2016.
The eleven domestic carriers including state-run Air India had flown 121.61 lakh passengers in February, 2015, according to the air traffic data released by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) today.
Budget carrier SpiceJet, maintained its high seat factor run, logging over 90 per cent seat factor for the ninth consecutive time with 92.3 per cent load factor during the month.
On the other hand, Tata-SIA run full service Vistara and another Tata group-invested airline Air Asia India along with Spicejet gained market share, rest of the carriers saw a marginal dip in their pie.
In terms of ontime performance from the four metro airports --Bangalore, Hyderabad, Delhi and Mumbai --Vistara delivered the hugest OTP at 90.7 per cent followed by IndiGo and Jet Airways at 90.7 and 82.9 per cent OTP respectively, in February.
According to DGCA, the overall cancellation rate of scheduled domestic airlines during the reporting month stood at 0.7 per cent per cent. Two regional airline Air Costa and Air Pegasus, cancelled nearly 20 per cent and 16 per cent of the total flights operated by them.
