During the reporting month, budget carrier IndiGo carried 86.40 lakh passengers, clocking a market share of 63.3%, followed by Tata Group-run Air India and Vistara, which flew 26.48- lakh and 12.43-lakh travellers, respectively.
Air India numbers include the number of passengers flown by its low-cost arm Air India Express, as per data. Air India merged its subsidiary AIX Connect with its low-cost international budget arm Air India Express on October 1 this year.
The merged entity named as Air India Express now operates as the low-cost arm of Air India.
The market share of Air India (including Air India Express) during October 2024 stood at 19.4%, while that of Vistara at 9.1%, as per the Directorate General of Civil Aviation data.
Vistara, earlier a 51:49% joint venture between Tata Sons and Singapore Airlines, also merged with full-service carrier Air India on November 12.
The two Tata Group airlines (Air India and Vistara) taken together accounted for 28.5% of the total domestic passenger traffic last month, according to data.
At the same time, SpiceJet flew 3.35 lakh passengers while Akasa Air, transported 6.16-lakh passengers in the previous month, accounting for 2.4% and 5.4% in the overall domestic passenger traffic in October 2024, the DGCA data showed.
IndiGo delivered the highest on-time performance from the four metro airports — Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru and Hyderabad — at 71.9% during the previous month, while the government-run Alliance Air had the lowest OTP at 54.4% among six major airlines of the country, according to DGCA.
