Domestic air traffic hits 166.9 million in 2025; IndiGo share dips in Dec

According to DGCA data, IndiGo, which had cancelled a large number of flights in early December, saw its market share slump to 59.6 per cent in that month from 63.6 per cent in November

Domestic air traffic rose over 3 per cent to 166.9 million in 2025, while the number of people who flew in domestic airlines fell to 14.3 million in December, a month when there were massive operational disruptions at IndiGo.

Data released by aviation regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Tuesday showed that IndiGo, which had cancelled a large number of flights in early December, saw its market share slump to 59.6 per cent in that month from 63.6 per cent in November.

In December, the market share of Air India Group and Akasa Air rose to 29.6 per cent and 5.2 per cent, respectively. The two airlines' market share stood at 26.7 per cent and 4.7 per cent, respectively.

 

SpiceJet also saw its market share rise to 4.3 per cent in December from 3.7 per cent in November 2025.

According to the data, state-owned Alliance Air's market share remained unchanged at 0.4 per cent in December.

The overall cancellation of scheduled domestic airlines was 6.92 per cent in December, and that of IndiGo was 9.65 per cent.

"Passengers carried by domestic airlines during January-December 2025 were 166.946 million as against 161.331 million during the corresponding period of the previous year, thereby registering an annual growth of 3.48 per cent and a monthly negative growth of 4.14 per cent," the DGCA said in its report for December.

More than 1.046 million passengers were affected by flight cancellations in December, and airlines shelled out over ₹24 crore towards compensation and facilitation.

In December 2025, a total of 29,212 passenger-related complaints were received by the scheduled domestic airlines, DGCA said.

On-time performance, a measure of punctuality, was the highest for Air India Group at 66.3 per cent in December, while that of IndiGo and Alliance Air was 62.7 per cent and 62.1 per cent, respectively, during the same period.

In December, Akasa Air and SpiceJet recorded on-time performance of 55.6 per cent and 46.9 per cent, respectively.

On-time performance of scheduled domestic airlines is computed for six metro airports -- Bengaluru, Delhi, Hyderabad, Mumbai, Chennai, and Kolkata.