India's largest Low cost airline carrier Indigo Airways has overtaken state-owned Air India from the Number 3 spot in terms of market share in the domestic market in November going by the air traffic data released by the Directorate General of Civil aviation (DGCA).
As against 17.1 % Domestic traffic share in aviation market Indigo Airlines now have a 17.3 per cent share in the domestic market. Yhe data is compiled on a monthly basis and this ranking owes to the November data wherein,the budget carrier flew 8.43 lakh passengers as against 8.36 lakh air travelers flown by the full-service Air India. Presently the airline operates 207 daily flights to 22 destinations with its fleet of 31 Airbus A320 aircraft. These include, apart from all the metros, cities and smaller towns such as Agartala, Panaji, Guwahati, Dibrugarh, Patna, Pune, Srinagar and Vadodara and other Indian cities.
Not only this, the domestic air traffic of scheduled domestic carriers also rose 25.1 per cent to 48.75 lakh during November 2010 as against 38.98 lakh in the corresponding month last year. The domestic air traffic was up 19 per cent at 468.09 lakh during January-November of 2010 as against 393.53 lakh during the same period in the previous year.
The recent trends have shown that, the air traffic market has shifted towards low-cost carriers and airlines such as Jet Airways and Kingfisher Airlines have also been quick to adopt themselves towards this trend and hence move their capacity to no-frill arms Jet Konnect and Kingfisher Red.
The Indigo Airlines has also asked for permission from the Indian Government to start International Flights mainly Flights from UAE and also International Flights to India.
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