Domestic air travel witnesses 17% growth in November: DGCA

TBM Staff - Mumbai Sunday, 19 December 2021, 4:28 PM

Around 1.05 crore domestic passengers travelled by air in November, 17.03 per cent higher than the 89.85 lakh who travelled the month before, the country’s aviation regulator said. While IndiGo carried 57.06 lakh passengers in November, a 54.3 per cent share of the domestic market, SpiceJet Continue Reading

Maharashtra govt amends air travel guidelines for passengers

TBM Staff - Mumbai Friday, 3 December 2021, 11:24 AM

With the Maharashtra government on December 2 amending its air travel rules in view of global concerns over the Omicron variant of coronavirus, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) cancelled its previous guidelines issued to the city airport authorities and asked them to follow the revised ones as issued by the state.The state government’s amended air […]Continue Reading

Domestic air passenger traffic up 31% at 66 lakh in August on higher capacity deployment: ICRA

TBM Staff - Mumbai Tuesday, 7 September 2021, 9:34 AM

Domestic air passenger traffic continued on the growth trajectory in August with volumes growing up to 31 per cent to 66 lakh over the previous month, helped by higher capacity deployment and a downward trend in the pandemic, credit ratings agency ICRA said on September 6. The domestic passenger traffic in July 2021 was 51 […]Continue Reading

Domestic air travel bookings gather pace amid festive season

TBM Staff - Mumbai Wednesday, 25 August 2021, 10:50 AM

Air travel bookings in India have gathered pace ahead of the festive season, offering hopes of a full revival for the sector battered by the pandemic. Airlines, however, remain cautious of a potential third wave of Covid-19, mindful of the severe dent to business during May and June this year when the second wave erased […]Continue Reading

Centre aims to make air travel affordable for common man: Jyotiraditya Scindia

TBM Staff - Mumbai Thursday, 19 August 2021, 10:52 AM

Union Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia on August 18 said the central government aimed to provide an affordable air travel facility, which even a person “wearing slippers” could avail. As part of the domestic civil aviation sector’s expansion in the past four years, new airports have been opened in many smaller cities and air services […]Continue Reading

Air travel becomes costlier, govt raises caps on domestic airfares by 9.83-12.82 per cent

TBM Staff - Mumbai Friday, 13 August 2021, 4:38 PM

Domestic air travel is set to become costlier as the Civil Aviation Ministry has raised the lower as well as upper caps on fares by 9.83 to 12.82 percent, according to an official order. India had imposed lower and upper limits on airfares based on flight duration when services were resumed on May 25, 2020, […]Continue Reading