Domestic air traffic down 57% in Oct 2020; Indigo maintains leadership, GoAir and AirAsia market share rises

· Domestic airlines carried 52.71 lakh passengers in October 2020, declining by 57% compared to 123.16 lakh passengers carried in the same month a year ago.

· Overall in 2020, the airlines have carried 493.31 lakhs passengers, half of what it carried in the corresponding of the previous year. Between January - October 2019, airlines had carried 1182.06 lakhs passengers. Thereby, currently this year, domestic air traffic is down by 58.27% annually.

· In the passenger load factors (PLF), Indigo saw a rise to 61.8% in October 2020 versus 65.4% in September 2020. SpiceJet also saw an increase in PLF to 74% in October 2020 against 73% in the previous month.

· PLF stood at 62.1% for Air India, 61.8% for GoAir, 63% for AirAsia and 65.2% for Vistara in October 2020. Except for Vistara, all these airlines saw a rise in their PLF on the month-on-month basis.