DGCA: India’s domestic passenger traffic shows 27% Y-O-Y increase

Despite a rather slow post-pandemic recovery in the Asia-Pacific aviation markets and a negative forecast by Investment Information and Credit Rating Agency of India (ICRA), the Indian domestic civil aviation sector has outdone itself with a 27% year-on-year increase in passenger traffic in October 2022. As per the data revealed by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA, India), domestic operators in India carried 114.07 lakh passengers in October 2022. The number stood at 103.55 lakh in September 2022. In the 10-month period from January to October 2022, the domestic air carriers carried 988.31 lakh passengers, up from 620.96 lakh