DGCA: 1.29 crore domestic passengers in August, 74,381 affected by flight delays

Domestic airlines flew 129 crore passengers in August lower than 131 crore people carried by them in the yearago period according to the latest official dataHowever the traffic quantum was higher in August compared to July when it stood at 126 croreIndiGos domestic market fell to 642 per cent in August against 652 per cent in July while that of Air India Group comprising Air India and Air India Express rose to 273 per cent from 262 per cent during the same periodPassengers carried by domestic airlines during JanuaryAugust 2025 were 110726 lakhs as against 105466 lakhs during the corresponding period of the previous year thereby registering an annual growth of 499 per cent and a monthly growth of 140 per cent DGCA said in its monthly traffic report for AugustIn August the passenger number stood at 129 crore lower than 131 crore recorded in the same period a year agoMeanwhile the market share of Akasa Air dipped to 54 per cent in August from 55 per cent in the previous month and that of SpiceJet remained unchanged at 2 per centIn August governmentowned Alliance Airs market share slipped to 03 per cent from 04 per cent in July Star Air and Fly91s market share remained unchanged at 05 per cent and 02 per cent respectivelyA total of 1407 passengerrelated complaints were received by the scheduled domestic airlines and the number of complaints per 10000 passengers carried in August was around 109As per the DGCA Directorate General of Civil Aviation data a total of 74381 passengers were affected due to flight delays and airlines shelled out Rs 118 crore towards facilitation in AugustAs many as 36362 passengers were impacted by flight cancellations with airlines spending Rs 6451 lakh for compensation and facilitiesDGCA said a total of 705 passengers were denied boarding and carriers spent Rs 2452 lakh towards compensation and facilitiesIn terms of OnTime Performance in August IndiGo topped the list with 906 per cent followed by Akasa Air 87 per cent Air India Group 845 per cent SpiceJet 682 per cent and Alliance Air 552 per centOTP is computed for six metro airports Bangalore Delhi Hyderabad Mumbai Chennai and KolkataThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever