India's Domestic Passenger Traffic

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Passenger traffic at Bangalore International Airport surged 35.3 per cent on a year-on-year basis to 37.2-million in calendar 2023, the private airport operator said on Friday. The facility had handled a total of 27.50-million passengers in the January-December period of 2022. During the previous year, it said, Cargo volumes rose 2 per cent on a year-on-year basis with the facility processing a total of 4,22,644 MT of cargo during CY 2023. The domestic sector soared with an impressive 11 per cent growth, highlighting the airport's strengthening its position as a rapidly growing cargo hub in India, it said. Of the total 37.2 million passengers handled during 2023, 32.7 million were domestic passengers and 4.5 million travelled to international destinations, Bangalore International Airport Ltd (BIAL) said in a statement. On April 29, 2023, the Airport recorded the highest number of passengers in a single day for CY2023 at 1,16,688 passengers, exceeding the pre-pandemic levels, it ..

The country's domestic air passenger traffic grew 18.78 per cent to around 1.25 crore in June compared to the year-ago period, according to official data released on Thursday. In June, IndiGo, Air India, Vistara, AirAsia India and Akasa Air saw an increase in their respective market share amid the grounding of budget carrier Go First. However, SpiceJet's market share continued to decline and fell to 4.4 per cent last month whereas it stood at 7.3 per cent in January this year. The data from the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) showed that domestic carriers flew 124.87 lakh people in June compared to 105.12 lakh in the same period a year ago. IndiGo, which carried around 79 lakh passengers in the previous month, increased its market share to 63.2 per cent from 61.4 per cent in May. Tata Group airlines -- Air India and AirAsia India (now rebranded as AIX Connect) -- flew 12.37 lakh and 10.4 lakh passengers, respectively in June. The market share of Air India stood at 9.7

The domestic airlines carried a total of 37.5 million passengers between January-March 2023 as compared to 24.7 million passengers during the corresponding period in the last year

The biggest decline has been in foreign tourist arrivals

There is no proposal under consideration for the operation of passenger trains by private players, the railways informed Parliament Friday, years after the national transporter unveiled plans to hand over certain routes to private parties. In a written reply in Rajya Sabha, Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said the railways currently has no proposals in this regard. The national transporter planned to introduce private trains on its network in phases, with the first dozen due to start running in the 2023-24 financial year and all 151 by 2027. However, only two bidders, IRCTC and Megha Engineering & Infrastructures, evinced interest at the financial bidding stage. This has now led to the whole proposal being put on the back burner because of lack of interest among private players.

Domestic air passenger traffic is estimated to have logged an 83 per cent growth year-on-year at 10.5-million in April as Covid-19 infection cases waned, leaving a gap of just 5 per cent when compared to the pre-pandemic level, ICRA said on Monday. Indian carriers had flown around 11 million passengers in April 2019. However, the domestic airline operators saw the international passenger traffic marginally surpassing the pre-pandemic numbers (around 1.83 million), with total volumes standing at around 1.85 million, it said. It also said that rising aviation turbine fuel (ATF) prices due to ongoing geo-political issues linked to the Russia-Ukraine conflict continue to evolve as a major threat to the recovery process. For April 2022, the average daily departures were at around 2,726, notably higher than the average daily departures of around 2,000 in the same month a year earlier and higher compared to around 2,588 in March 2022, said Suprio Banerjee, Vice-President & Sector Head, ..

The Railways was facing criticism for higher fares being charged during the pandemic

India's domestic air passenger market is expected to double its size by 2030 from the pre-pandemic level, aircraft manufacturer Boeing said on Wednesday

The domestic air passenger volume grew in double digit for five consecutive years, it said in a release

India's domestic passenger traffic growth was followed by that of China at 10 per cent and Japan at 9 per cent