Page 4 - Domestic Air Travel

Airlines fly record number of passengers Sunday, outrace govt price band

Govt price cap was effective till July 31 and it was reintroduced Sunday evening, giving airlines time to sell their inventory at competitive prices

Few takers for advance booking of airline tickets even as traffic improves

Average load factors are still around 55% and most of the bookings are for travel within seven days

Air travellers show 2x rise in June first week over May as Covid cases fall

Rise in passenger uptake expected to be swifter than it was after 1st wave

Covid-19 pandemic: Govt cuts airline capacity to 50% from June 1

Decision divides industry with experts calling it interference in commercial freedom of airlines

Domestic air travel become costlier as govt raises lower limit on fares

Domestic air travel is set to become costlier as the Civil Aviation Ministry on Friday raised the lower limit on fares by 13 to 16 per cent, according to an official order

Spike in Covid-19 cases to delay recovery in air passenger traffic: Report

With the rise in the cases across metros, new restrictions cannot be ruled out that could further impact the traffic movement, ICRA said.

India's domestic air traffic falls 37% to 7.8 mn passengers in Feb: Report

Travel curbs and capacity restrictions due to the pandemic were factors

Five domestic airlines to resume operations from Mumbai airport T1 on Wed

Five domestic airlines will be operating 102 flights to 27 destinations on day one of the resumption of flight operations from Terminal-1 on Wednesday

Rumblings and grumblings in the sky

International traffic is showing no sign of picking up and for Indian carriers, West Asia - a lucrative market - is still out of bounds

Corporate air travel takes wing on economic revival, low Covid-19 cases

Online travel portals and airlines say the demand from companies is being led by essential services sectors like pharmaceutical, oil and gas, and power

Tata's airline dilemma

A Tata takeover of Air India is being seen as the best outcome for all concerned

Govt plans to lift cap on flights, wants airlines to fly full capacity

Except IndiGo, airlines resist lifting of cap as traffic uncertain

Domestic air passenger volume falls 57% to 5.2 million in October

Domestic air passenger volume fell 57.21 per cent to 52.71 lakh in October over the year ago period, as airlines continued to operate at a much lower capacity, the DGCA data showed on Wednesday.

206,000 passengers used domestic air services since May 25: Hardeep Puri

Union Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said that a total of 206,000 passengers have used the domestic air services since May 25, the day when flight operations resumed post-Covid lockdown

Aviation recovery to be delayed as govt extends 60% cap on flight capacity

Move runs contra to aviation minister's earlier statement on likelihood of raising ceiling to 75% of pre-Covid scheduled domestic flights

Domestic air travel figures returning to pre-pandemic levels: Puri

Union Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri on Friday said domestic civil aviation operations are continuing smoothly and the number of domestic travellers is moving towards pre-Covid figures

Caught in Covid air pocket, SpiceJet posts Rs 593-crore pre-tax loss in Q1

Market leader IndiGo had registered a pre-tax loss of Rs 2,849 crore during the same period

A new high in the sky, domestic travellers touch 143,811: Hardeep Puri

The total number of domestic travellers on Sunday in the country touched 143,811, said Hardeep Singh Puri, Civil Aviation Minister said today

Government allows airlines to increase capacity upto 60% of total capacity

Indian airlines resumed their domestic operations from 25 May after being grounded for two months due to the lockdown to contain Covid-19 pandemic

Big gets bigger

Is dominance of big players necessarily a bad thing?