

Spicejet topped the list with 94.8 per cent, followed by Vistara (93.2 per cent) and Air Asia (92.8 per cent).ĭuring May 2023, a total of 556 passenger-related complaints had been received by the scheduled domestic airlines as compared to 360 in the previous month. The shutdown of GoFirst saw load factors of all other major Indian carriers going over 90 per cent, hitting the highest fare buckets. Read | Go First says it will resume operations after DGCA auditĪs per the latest data of DGCA, domestic airlines carried 636.07 lakh passengers between January to May 2023, as against 467.37 lakh during the corresponding period of the previous year thereby registering an annual growth of 36.10 per cent. Go First halted operations on May 2 and filed for voluntary bankruptcy resolution application with the arbitration panel, the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) quoting faulty engines supplied by Pratt & Whitney (P&W).

The only exception was SpiceJet which saw its domestic market share fall from 5.8 per cent in April to 5.4 per cent this May amidst insolvency pleas by unpaid parties and requests from lessors to take back planes.įrom being the fourth largest airline by market share, the Wadia Group-owned Go First now occupies the 8th position with a market share as low as 0.4 per cent. The youngest airline in the fray, Akasa Air, saw an increase of 0.8 per cent from 4 per cent to 4.8 per cent, according to DGCA data. The three Tata Group airlines - Air India, Vistara and AirAsia India - saw an increase of 1.4 per cent from 24.9 per cent to 26.3 per cent in the same period, combined. For the month of May, Indigo's market share rose to 61.4 per cent, up 3.9 per cent from April, as per official data released on Thursday. InterGlobe Aviation backed Indigo benefited the most from the voluntary bankruptcy or GoFirst, data from aviation regulator DCGA showed.
