Key Points
In pre-Covid calendar year 2019, this number was 14.4 crore...
After crashing to 6.3 crore in 2020, which had seen a two-month suspension of regular flights during the national lockdown, domestic air travel showed smart recovery to 8.4 crore in 2021 and then reached 12.3 crore in 2022..
DGCA data shows over 3.6 lakh domestic passengers faced flight delays last month and airlines spent over Rs 5.4 crore on their "facilitation."..
DGCA statistics also showed that December saw the highest monthly air traffic at 13.8 million, which was 8.3% higher than 2022 and 6% higher than the same period in the pre-Covid year (2019)...
The DGCA report stated that Akasa Air's passenger load factor was 93.9% - highest as compared to 85.6% in November and Air India's load factor was 88.2% in December as compared to 84.8% in November..
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