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Domestic air passengers flown rise in March 2021 over lower base

Despite a second wave of COVID infections impacting air travel during the month of March, domestic air passengers registered a growth of 0.78% during the month of March this year over the same month last year due a lower base.

Domestic traffic started declining during the month of March last year due to India reporting COVID cases and the government also announced a lockdown that led to the grounding of flights operations during the month of March and continued till May-end.



According to the DGCA data, airlines carried 7.82 million domestic passengers during the month of March this year, 0.78% growth over 7.76 million passengers carried during the same month last year.

Load factor (%) On-Time Performance (%) Market Share (%)
SpiceJet 76.5 92.2 12.8
Go Air 71.5 95.8 7.8
Air India 70.6 86.2 11.7
IndiGo 66.4 97.8 53.5
Air Asia India 65.1 91.6 6.9
Vistara 64.5 91.8 6.4

Despite the slowdown in domestic passenger growth due to the second wave of COVID, passengers will continue to register growth due to low base effect, as airlines did not operate any commercial passenger flights during the month of April and till the first three weeks of May.

As compared to February this year, passenger numbers have remained unchanged at 7.82 million.

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