Domestic air traffic falls 6.5% in September; IndiGo holds 65%

Domestic airlines carried 118.23 lakh passengers in September, 6.49% fewer than in August, according to DGCA data. For January to September, traffic was 1,223.53 lakh, down 0.82% from a year earlier.

IndiGo carried 77.30 lakh passengers, a 65.4% share. The Air India group had 26.8% and Akasa Air 5.6%. The DGCA did not give a reason for the decline.