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DGCA Predicts More Domestic Flights This Winter

[New Delhi]DGCA Predicts More Domestic Flights This Winter
Domestic carriers will operate around 21 per cent more flights this winter as compared to the same period last year.
However, there will be lesser number of airports available for scheduled operations in the winters of 2016-17, a DGCA official said today.
Winter schedule for the Indian airlines will commence from October 30 this year and will go up to the last week of March 2017.
According to the official, under the winter schedule, which was approved recently, a total of 16,600 flights will be operated per week by the domestic airlines as against 13,744 flights operated by them in the winters of 2015-16,
an increase of 20.8 per cent.
Scheduled operations will be available to and from 76 airports during the winter schedule of 2016-17,
the official said adding 81 aerodromes were available for this purpose in the previous year

Domestic Carriers Ferried 74.76 Lakhs Fliers In Feb -Less Then Jan

[New Delhi] Domestic Carriers Ferried 74.76 Lakhs Fliers In Feb Which Are Less Then Jan
But More Then Last Year .Domestic Carriers Ferried 74.76 Lakh Fliers in Feb
Total Air passenger Traffic Jumps 24% in Feb
Marking a growth of over 24 per cent in passengers number, domestic airlines flew 74.76 lakh people in February with majority of the carriers recording over 80 per cent seat occupancy.
In February last year, the carriers had ferried 60.16 lakh passengers.
Latest data compiled by aviation regulator DGCA showed that no-frills carrier IndiGo’s market share stood at 36.8 per cent in February while that of Jet Airways was 18.4 per cent.
Overall, the carriers ferried 74.76 lakh passengers, an increase of 24.27 per cent compared to the year-ago period,
The load factor — an indicator of seat occupancy — of majority of the carriers, including IndiGo and SpiceJet, was more than 80 per cent,
Last month, the market share of
Air India stood at 15.4 per cent, followed by
SpiceJet (13.1 per cent),
GoAir (8 per cent),
JetLite (2.8 per cent),
AirAsia (2.2 per cent),
Vistara (2 per cent) and
Air Costa (0.8 per cent). The market share of
Air Pegasus and Trujet was at 0.3 per cent each,
In January, local carriers had flown 76.55 lakh people.
According to the official, a total of 151.31 lakh passengers were ferried by airlines during January-February.
This represents an increase of over 23 per cent compared with 122.61 lakh passengers seen a year ago.