January-June passenger air traffic up 22% yoy

Passengers carried by the Indian domestic airlines from January to June 2010 were 257.10 lakhs as against 210.99 lakhs in the corresponding period last year, thereby registering a growth of 21.86%. The total domestic passengers carried by the Scheduled Airlines of India during April to June 2010 was 134.77 lakhs as against 118.53 lakhs in the first quarter of the year.



The total domestic passengers carried by the Scheduled Airlines of India in June were 45.04 lakhs versus 47.85 lakhs in May. Airlines had carried 41.88 lakhs passengers in April. June observed comparatively lower seat factor primarily due to end of vacations and onset of monsoon, the Civil Aviation Ministry said in a statement.

The overall cancellation rate of scheduled domestic airlines for June 2010 has been 1.7%. During June 2010, a total of 1617 passenger related complaints had been received by the scheduled domestic airlines. The number of complaints per 10,000 passengers carried for June 2010 has been 3.7 per 10,000 passengers carried.