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Domestic air passenger traffic rose 31% in August

Mumbai: Domestic air passenger traffic continued on the growth trajectory in August with a volume that grew to 31 percent to 66 lakh in the previous month, assisted by a higher deployment of capacity and a decrease in the pandemic body, said ICRA on Monday.
Domestic passenger traffic in July 2021 was 51 lakh, said ICRA in the release.
However, domestic passenger traffic in the year, however, jumped around 131 percent over traffic August 2020 28.3 lakh, he said.
The ranking body said that despite sustainable recovery in the previous month, there were stress continues to increase, mostly driven by the second wave of pandemic, limiting the trip to only the necessary trips.
“The demand for air travel continued to register an increase and the same grew around 30-31 percent at around 65-66 lakh in August, compared with around 50.1 lakh in July 2021, indicating yoy growth of around 131 percent,” Kinjal Shah, Vice President And a group head together for companies in ICRA, said.
The spread of airline capacity for August 2021 was around 99 percent higher at around 57,500 departures, such as the 28,834 departure in August 2020, Shah said, added that in sequence, the number of departures in August 2021 was around 22 per year.
Cent, because Covid-19 infection shows the trajectory down.
“For August 2021, the average departure every day was around 1,900, significantly higher than the average daily revival of around 900 in August 2020, and higher than about 1,500 in July 2021, although it remained lower than around 2,000 April 2021, “Shah said.
The average number of passengers per flight for 2021 August 114, against an average of 106 passengers per flight in July 2021, he said.
Although recovery continued in August 2021, there was continuous pressure on demand, mostly driven by the second wave of pandemic, limiting demand for only the necessary trips, while leisure and business travel has been limited due to various restrictions on countries, despite decreasing infection, He said.
The Civil Service Ministry was permitted to increase the deployment of capacity on domestic routes, gradually from 33 percent, with the effect of May 25, when domestic travel continued after the first wave of last year, up to 80 percent, with the effect of December 3, 2020.
However, this reduces the spread of capacity which was allowed to 50 percent of the pre-covid level, with the effect of June 1, 2021 due to the resurrection of the second wave of pandemic.
It returned to increase capacity which was allowed to 65 percent with the effect of July 5, which then increased to 75.2 percent from August 12 this year, said ICRA.
In addition, the ministry has also increased the minimum ribbon and a maximum of 10-13 percent for domestic flights with the effects of August 12, 2021 to 31 August 2021.
“In the view of ICRA, price increases may not have an impact on passengers in material requests such as in The current scenario, limited trips only for the necessary trips while recreational and business trips have been limited due to various restrictions on the countries and the spread of infection.
However, it will allow airlines to replace several parts of some parts of increasing jet fuel prices, thus Pads for some impact on airline losses, “he said.

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