New Delhi : India’s domestic passenger traffic grew by 22.3 per cent in November, a global airlines’ association said. “Domestic travel demand rose 7.1 per cent in November 2016 compared to the same month in 2015, but results continued to vary widely, with China, India and Russia showing double-digit growth while demand declined in Brazil and Japan,” the International Air Transport Association (IATA) said, reports IANS.
According to the data, India’s domestic revenue passenger kilometres (RPK) and available seat kilometres (ASK) were the highest amongst the major aviation markets such as Australia, Brazil, China, Japan, the Russian Federation and the US. The global airlines association’s data showed that India’s domestic RPK — a gauge that measures actual passenger traffic — rose by 22.3 per cent in November 2016 compared to the corresponding month of the previous year. The data disclosed that India’s domestic passenger traffic growth was followed by that of the Russian Federation at 15.5 per cent, China at 14.9 per cent, the US at 3.9 per cent, and Australia at 1.8 per cent.
