Domestic passenger traffic jumps 74% YoY in February, says DGCA

During February 2023, a total of 359 passenger related complaints had been received by the scheduled domestic airlines.

Domestic airlines in India recorded 74.50 year-on-year passenger growth in January- February 2023, data released by Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on March 20 showed. Indian airlines carried 246.11 lakhs passengers in February 2023 as against 141.04 lakhs during the corresponding period of previous year, the data said.

On a month-on-month basis, the passenger growth stood at 56.82 percent.

The overall cancellation rate of scheduled domestic airlines for the month of February 2023 has been 0.25 percent.

During February 2023, a total of 359 passenger related complaints had been
received by the scheduled domestic airlines. Alliance Air tops this list while Vistara and GoFirst reported no passenger related complaints.

In February, Indigo had the best on-time performance, for the fourth straight month in a row, of 88.8 percent at four metro airports—Delhi, Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Mumbai.

Akasa Air and Air India were the second and third followed by Vistara.

Also Read | Daily domestic passengers to cross earlier peak of 456,000 by October: Jyotiraditya Scindia