India's aviation sector continues to witnesses positive growth

New Delhi, May 13 (PTI) Continuing an upward trend,
India's domestic air traffic witnessed a 22 per cent growth
between January and April this year with airlines carrying
over 1.62 crore travellers.

Between January and April, domestic airlines carried
around 1.62 crore passengers as against the 1.33 crore during
the same period last year.
This came against the backdrop of continued downward
trends witnessed in the global aviation sector since it was
hit by recession and experienced negative growth since 2008.
In contrast, the scheduled Indian airlines flew a total of
41.88 lakh domestic passengers in April against 39.03 lakhs in
March this year.
Of these, Jet Airways and JetLite combined carried 10.84
lakh, Kingfisher 8.98 lakh, while Air India (domestic)
remained at the third spot with 7.62 lakh passengers.
Among the low cost carriers, 6.58 lakh passenger preferred
to fly with IndiGo, SpiceJet carried 5.27 lakh and GoAir 2.46
lakh while all-business airline Paramount Airways carried just
13,000 passengers during April, official figures showed.
Barring Kingfisher and Paramount Airways, all other
airlines witnessed a growth in their market share in April in
comparison to their shares in the month of March.
Kingfisher witnessed the biggest fall in its market share
from 22.6 per cent in March to 21.4 per cent in April, while
Paramount's share dipped from 1.6 per cent to a mere 0.3 per
cent.
Market share of Jet Airways and JetLite combine remained
almost same. Its share was 25.8 per cent in March which
increased to 25.9 per cent.
Among the gainers, market share of troubled national
carrier Air India (domestic) went up from 17.6 per cent in
March to 18.2 per cent in April, while that of IndiGo went up
from 15 per cent to 15.7 per cent.
Similarly, SpiceJet cornered a share of 12.6 per cent
in April against 12 per cent in March and GoAir 5.9 per cent
against 5.4 per cent, figures showed. PTI SMJ