India’s domestic air passenger traffic grew to 1.20 cr in Feb 2023: DGCA

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The growth in traffic was led by market leader IndiGo, which flew 67.42 lakh passengers during the previous month, cornering 55.9 per cent of the total domestic passenger traffic in February 2023..

Indias domestic air passenger traffic grew 56.82 per cent to 1.20 crore in February over the same month last year, as per the data released by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Monday..

All domestic carriers together had flown a total of 76.96 lakh passengers on local routes in February 2022..

Budget carrier SpiceJet, which is facing multiple headwinds, recorded the highest load factor at 91 per cent in February 2023 while IndiGo delivered the top on-time performance at 88.8 per cent on an average from across four key airports Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad and Bengaluru, data show..

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