Indian air traffic jumps 23% in June
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Domestic air passenger traffic in India continues to demonstrate strong double-digit growth.
Releasing the industry’s global performance results for June 2016, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) revealed that India’s domestic traffic jumped 23.3% during the month, compared to June 2015. This growth was in line with a 23.8% expansion of available seat capacity, allowing India’s average load factor to remain high, at 82.6%.
IATA said that India’s growth was “propelled by strong growth in real consumer spending as well as by the fact that airlines are adding airport pairs and frequencies”.
India’s growth rate far exceeds any of the world’s other major domestic air markets. China (+11.3%) was the only other country to see double-digit growth in June, while the US – the world’s largest domestic aviation market – increased 4.5%.
Along with Japan, India is now the world’s fifth largest domestic aviation market, after the US, China, Brazil and Russia. But with Brazilian traffic falling 6.4% in June and Russian demand rising less than 1%, India could soon start to rise up the global rankings.
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