New Delhi: Marginal growth of less than one percent in domestic air traffic was witnessed in February compared to the same month last year, with IndiGo and Jet Airways-JetLite combine ruling the market share.
In spite of a series of promotional fare offers by most of the airlines starting January, the air traffic growth of 0.69 percent the next month was minor.
Air India, with a market share of 9.62 lakh passengers, was behind IndiGo and Jet-JetLite which carried 14.64 lakh and 11.92 lakh passengers respectively last month, the latest official data on air traffic said on Friday .
While SpiceJet carried 8.85 lakh passengers last month, GoAir flew 4.27 lakh and new regional airline Air Costa 16,000.
GoAir and JetLite had the highest passenger load factors (or average percentage of seats occupied on a flight) of 77.3 and 76.4 percent respectively.
IndiGo and Air India were neck-and-neck with load factors of 75.5 and 75.1 percent respectively, while Jet had a load factor of 72.3 percent, SpiceJet 70.9 and Air Costa 71.6.
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