Air traffic soars in March quarter

The domestic aviation industry continues to witness recovery with passenger traffic for March increasing by 21.4% as compared to the corresponding period last year.

For the quarter ending March 31 this year, passenger traffic jumped by a massive 51.7% compared to the year-ago period.

IndiGo continued its dominance with its market share in March increasing marginally to 56.8%.


Tata-owned Vistara was the second largest airline with 8.9% share.

Both the financially beleaguered airlines — SpiceJet and Go First — saw their market shares shrink.