Lok Sabha Question No. 534 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2018-12-13
Subject: Growth of Domestic Passenger Traffic
Ministry: CIVIL AVIATION
Asked by: K. GOPAL

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF CIVIL AVIATION LOK SABHA UNSTARRED NO. 8 534 (To be answered on the December 2018)

## GROWTH OF DOMESTIC PASSENGER TRAFFIC

534.

DR K GOPAL

Will the Minister of CIVIL A VIATION

- (b) if s0, the reasons therefor;

be pleased to state:-

- (a) whether it is a fact that domestic passenger traffic grew by 13.3% in October, 2018, the slowest in 15 months;
- (whether the domestic air traffic has been grewing at 201% y-o-y due to affordable fares and personal income in the 2018 calendar year; and () whether it is also true that the majority of carriers reported 2-7 % Y-O-Y rising
- decline in passenger load factor in October; 20182

## ANSWER

Minister of State in the Ministry of CIVIL AVIATION

(Shri Jayant Sinha)

(a) (b): The details of domestic passenger traffic in 15 months is at Annexure-L.

variation in passenger load factor in October, 2018 over t0 October, 2017is at AnnexureIII

(c): The details of y-O-y (October, 2018 over to October, 2017) growth of Scheduled Domestic air passengers is at Annexure-II

## MATERIAL FOR PART (a) OF LOK SABHA QUESTION No. 534 TO BE ANSWEREDI ON 13-12- 2018

| Month   | Scheduled Domestic Passengers(in million)   | Scheduled Domestic Passengers(in million)   |             |
|---------|---------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------|-------------|
|         | 2016-17                                     | 2017-18                                     | % Variation |
| AUG     | 8.3                                         | 9.7                                         | 15.7        |
| SEP     | 8.2                                         | 9.6                                         | 16.5        |
| OCT     | 8.6                                         | 10.4                                        | 20.6        |
|         | 8.9                                         | 10.5                                        | 16.9        |
| DEC     | 9.5                                         | 11.2                                        | 17.8        |
| JAN     | 9.5                                         | 11.4                                        | 19.9        |
| FEB     | 8.6                                         | 10.7                                        | 24.4        |
| MAR     | 9.0                                         | 11.5                                        | 28.2        |
|         | 2017-18                                     | 2018-19                                     |             |
| APR     | 9.1                                         | 11.5                                        | 26.1        |
| MAY     | 10.1                                        | 11.8                                        | 16.6        |
| JUN     | 9.5                                         | 11.3                                        |             |
| JUL     | 9.5                                         | 11.7                                        | 22.3        |
| AUG     | 9.7                                         | 11.3                                        | 17.1        |
| SEP     | 9.6                                         | 11.4                                        | 19.0        |
| OCT     | 10.4                                        | 11.8                                        | 13.3        |

| MATERIAL FOR PART (c) OF LOK SABHA QUESTION No. 534 TO BE ANSWERED ON 13-12- 2018   | MATERIAL FOR PART (c) OF LOK SABHA QUESTION No. 534 TO BE ANSWERED ON 13-12- 2018   | MATERIAL FOR PART (c) OF LOK SABHA QUESTION No. 534 TO BE ANSWERED ON 13-12- 2018   |
|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| Year                                                                                | SCHEDULED DOMESTIC PASSENGERS(IN MILLION)                                           | YEAR ON YEAR GROWTH(%)                                                              |
| 2017 (JANUARY to OCTOBER)                                                           | 95.1                                                                                |                                                                                     |
| 2018 (JANUARY to OCTOBER)                                                           | 114.4                                                                               | 20.3                                                                                |

ANNEXURE-IlI

## MATERIAL FOR PART (d) OF LOK SABHA QUESTION QUESTION No. 534 TO BE ANSWERED ON 13-12-2018

|                            | PASSENGER LOAD FACTOR (%)   | PASSENGER LOAD FACTOR (%)   | VARIATION   |
|----------------------------|-----------------------------|-----------------------------|-------------|
| SCHEDULED DOMESTIC CARRIER | Oct-17                      | Oct-18                      | VARIATION   |
| ALLIANCE AIR               | 76.2                        | 65.5                        | -10.7       |
| AIR INDIA EXPRESS          | 61.8                        | 57.3                        | -4.4        |
| AIR INDIA                  | 76.6                        | 79.4                        | 2.8         |
| AIR ASIA                   | 83.0                        | 83.7                        | 0.7         |
| GO AIR                     | 87.6                        | 84.1                        | -.5         |
| INDIGO                     | 87.3                        | 83.1                        | -4.2        |
| JET AIRWAYS                | 80.5                        | 81.6                        | 1.1         |
| JETLITE                    | 82.1                        | 80.2                        | -1.9        |
| SPICEJET                   | 93.7                        | 90.8                        | -2.9        |
| VISTARA                    | 80.3                        | 79.7                        | -0.5        |
| TRUJET                     | 65.7                        | 81.7                        | 16.0        |