Indian domestic airflights statistics; Jet airways on top

Picture courtesy: Airbus

The center for Asia Pacific navigation recently posted an in depth analysis covering the Indian domestic airlines, airport sectors including latest traffic and certain financial reports. Here are some interesting figures noted below.

The total passengers carried by domestic airlines in the month of Oct-08 was 3.1 million. That's approximately 31 lakh people who traveled in that month alone (The railways beat this by almost 6 times logging 18.9 million people monthly)

The break-up of passengers carried by the Airlines in Oct-08 is as follows

• Jet Airways: 617,000
• Air India: 565,000
• Kingfisher: 445,000
• Deccan: 418,000
• IndiGo: 402,000
• SpiceJet: 297,000
• JetLite: 254,000
• Go Air: 75,000
• Paramount: 53,000
• MDLR: 7,000

Jet Airway's largest share of the passenger traffic is due to their deeper penetration of the corporate sector. They are backed by a well focused and very strong sales team that target primarily companies and corporate travels, with attractive discounts and customer loyalty programs. And since air travel is currently a niche market catering to the corporates, their focus has been on the right segment. Air India's second place would be largely due to the size of their network. Almost every city is included in their sectors.

The statistic should change for the month of November since Deccan has been merged and rebranded as Kingfisher Red. IndiGo is quickly on the rise due to them being one of the leaders of the low cast carrier concept. So out of the airlines you have traveled on, which would you recommend and why?