Domestic passengers carried by Indian scheduled airlines in the second quarter of 2009
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The total domestic passengers carried by the Scheduled Airlines of India in the second quarter of 2009 - April to June 2009 - was 109.38 lakhs as against 98.22 lakh during January to March, 2009. The break-up for second quarter of 2009 (April to June, 2009) is as follows: Air India (Domestic) – 19.18 lakhs, Jet Airways –17.80 lakhs, Jet Lite – 8.11 lakhs, Kingfisher – 27.72 lakhs, Spice Jet – 13.57 lakhs, Paramount – 2.30 lakhs, Go Air – 5.34 lakhs, IndiGo – 14.98 lakhs. Passengers carried by domestic airlines in the first half of the year 2009 (Jan-June) were 210.99 lakhs as against 229.45 lakhs in the corresponding period of 2008 thereby registering a negative growth of 8.05%. The total domestic passengers carried by the Scheduled Airlines of India in the month of June, 2009 were 36.94 lakhs. The break-up is as follows: Air India (Domestic) – 6.45 lakhs, Jet Airways –6.12 lakhs, Jet Lite – 2.71 lakhs, Kingfisher – 9.01 lakhs, Spice Jet – 4.74 lakhs, Paramount – 0.73 lakhs, Go Air – 2.01 lakhs, IndiGo – 5.04 lakhs. The percentage share of the carriers in the month of June, 2009 was: Air India (Domestic) – 17.5%, Jet Airways – 16.6%, Jet Lite – 7.3%, Kingfisher – 24.4%, Spice Jet – 12.8%, Paramount – 2.0%, Go Air – 5.4% and IndiGo – 13.6%. The percentage share of the carriers in the second quarter of 2009 was: Air India (Domestic) 17.5%, Jet Airways – 16.3%, Jet Lite – 7.4%, Kingfisher – 25.3%, Spice Jet – 12.4%, Paramount – 2.1%, Go Air – 4.9% and IndiGo – 13.7%. It may be recalled that the percentage share of the carriers in the second quarter of 2008 was: Air India (Domestic) 15.4%, Jet Airways – 21.1%, Jet Lite – 8.2%, Deccan – 13.5%, Kingfisher – 14.3%, Spice Jet – 10.5%, Paramount – 1.2%, Go Air – 3.9% and IndiGo – 11.7%. The seat factors of the domestic airlines in June 2009 were: Air India (Domestic) – 67.9%, Jet Airways – 67.8%, JetLite – 74.4%, Kingfisher Airlines – 72.0%, Spice Jet – 77.3%, Paramount Airways – 88.2%, Go Air – 85.1% and IndiGo – 81.7%. ******* MC/MK