India 3rd largest aviation market in domestic air passenger traffic: CAPA

Mar 28, 2017: India has been ranked the third largest aviation market in terms of domestic passenger traffic, beating Japan, as per a report by a Sydney based aviation think tank, Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation (CAPA).

India’s domestic air passenger traffic stood at 100 million in 2016 and was behind only the US (719 million) and China (436 million), CAPA said.

Japan flew 97 million domestic passengers in 2016.

Domestic air traffic has shown a consistent growth of 20 -25 percent throughout 2015 and 2016, peaking in January this year at 25.13 percent. However, the domestic travel demand rose 16 percent in February this year, ending the long streak of over 20 percent.

According to CAPA, India which enjoyed the fourth position in terms of overall air passenger traffic (both domestic and international) along with the UK, has also inched closer to becoming the third largest one by March next year.