Air travellers increase in Oct

New Delhi, Nov 12 (UNI) In a healthy sign, domestic scheduled airlines carried 3.133 million passengers in October against 2.676 million in September.

According to an offical data released today, Jet Airways carried 617,000 passengers in October (19.7 per cent of the total), Jet Lite 2,54,000 (8.1 per cent), Air India (Domestic) 5,65,000 (18 per cent), Kingfisher 4,45,000 (14.2 per cent), Air Deccan 4,18,000 (13.3 per cent), IndiGo 4,02,000 (12.8 per cent), SpiceJet 2,97,000 (9.5 per cent), GoAir 75,000 (2.4 per cent), Paramount 53,000 (1.7 per cent) and MDLR 7,000 (0.21 per cent).

The seat factors of the domestic airline were: Jet Airways 64.5 per cent, JetLite 68.9 per cent, Kingfisher Airlines 58.0 per cent, Air Deccan 62.0 per cent, Air India (Domestic) 59.0 per cent, IndiGo 66.0 per cent, Spice Jet 61.7 per cent, GoAir 64.0 per cent, Paramount Airways 69.2 per cent, and MDLR 76.2 per cent.

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