{"id":21744,"date":"2022-06-23T10:17:41","date_gmt":"2022-06-23T04:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/?p=21744"},"modified":"2022-06-23T10:17:43","modified_gmt":"2022-06-23T04:47:43","slug":"domestic-air-passenger-traffic-grows-nearly-five-fold-in-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/23\/domestic-air-passenger-traffic-grows-nearly-five-fold-in-may\/","title":{"rendered":"Domestic air passenger traffic grows nearly five-fold in May"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">As Indian carriers <strong>carried 1.20 crore passengers<\/strong> on local routes in May, recording a roughly five-fold increase in volume year over year, according to DGCA data released on Wednesday, <strong>domestic air passenger traffic saw a strong revival in demand. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to data from the <em>Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA)<\/em>, there were just 21 lakh domestic aviation passengers in May 2021. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/airport.jpg\" alt=\"Domestic air passenger traffic saw a strong revival in demand as Indian carriers carried 1.20 crore passengers on local routes in May, \" class=\"wp-image-21745\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/airport.jpg 600w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/airport-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption>image courtesy &#8211; dtnews<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>IndiGo, the market leader, transported about <strong>70 lakh of the 1.20 crore passengers <\/strong>flown by domestic carriers in May 2022, accounting for 57.9% of the market share. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Go First<\/strong>, a Mumbai-based airline, transported 12.76 lakh passengers, or 10.8% of all domestic traffic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the monthly data, low-cost carrier <strong>SpiceJet<\/strong> had the greatest load factor during the reporting month at 89.1%, followed by Go First at 86.5 %. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse has-text-align-center\">The passenger load factor, also known as the <strong>seat factor or average percentage<\/strong> of seats filled in an aircraft, is a measure of how much of an airline's passenger carrying capacity is used. <\/pre>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"562\" src=\"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/11535912_cmyk.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21746\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/11535912_cmyk.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/11535912_cmyk-600x337.jpg 600w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/11535912_cmyk-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/11535912_cmyk-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/11535912_cmyk-750x422.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><figcaption>image credits to dtnews <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>AirAsia India achieved the highest percentage of <strong>on-time flights (90.8%) across four important airports,<\/strong> according to On-Time Performance (OTP). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the DGCA, Vistara had the <strong>second-best OTP<\/strong> in the examined month, at 87.5%.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Join Our Telegram group for Latest Aviation Updates :- https:\/\/t.me\/aviationa2z<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Domestic air passenger traffic saw a strong revival in demand as Indian carriers carried 1.20 crore passengers on local routes in May<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[399],"tags":[2030,5911,1536,2287,446,334],"class_list":{"0":"post-21744","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-featured","8":"tag-aviation-a2z-news","9":"tag-domestic-air-passenger-traffic","10":"tag-domestic-air-travel","11":"tag-go-first","12":"tag-spicejet","13":"tag-vistara"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21747,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21744\/revisions\/21747"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}