India's top airlines: IndiGo remains No 1

IndiGo maintained its lead in Indian aviation sector cornering over 30 per cent market share, as all Indian carriers together flew 53.18 lakh passengers in April this year as against 52.88 lakh in March.

IndiGo has a market share of 31.6 per cent with a maximum number of 16.8 lakh passengers in April.

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Jet Airways-JetLite combine is at the 2nd position with a 21.8 per cent market share.

Jet Airways-JetLite combine had a total number of 11.62 lakh passengers in April this year.

The total passengers ferried by all domestic airlines between January-April grew to 206.99 lakh as against 202.90 lakh during the same period last year, recording a growth of little over two per cent.

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Air India with 18.3 percent has bagged the third position, latest Indian air traffic data showed.

Air India (domestic) carried 9.74 lakh passengers in April.

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SpiceJet with 9.5 lakh passengers was in the fourth place with a 17.9 per cent market share.

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GoAir is at the fifth position with 9.5 per cent of the market share. GoAir carried 5.07 lakh travellers in April.

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Vijayawada-based new regional airline AirCosta carried 45,000 passengers (0.8 per cent market share), the data collected by DGCA showed.

AirCosta, which flies to nine destinations with four aircraft, led in the passenger load factor figures (or average percentage of seats filled per aircraft) with 77.8 per cent, with IndiGo following it at 76.9 per cent, GoAir with 76.1, JetLite with 76 and Air India and SpiceJet with 73.3 each.