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India posts second month-on-month improvement in domestic passengers
August 19th 2021
Airlines in India flew five million domestic passengers in July, up 60.8% month-on-month from 3.1 million passengers in June, figures from the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) show. Read More » It was the second consecutive month-on-month improvement in domestic passengers carried as the country emerges from a devastating wave of COVID-19 infections. The July figure also represented a 137.6% improvement from 2.1 million domestic passengers flown in July 2020, a month when India's airlines returned to the air after flights had been suspended due to COVID-19. IndiGo garnered more than half of the market in July, flying 2.9 million passengers, or 58.6% of all domestic air travellers. In second place was state-owned Air India (13.4%/670,000 passengers), followed by SpiceJet (9.1%/456,000 passengers) and Vistara (8.1%/407,000 passengers).
