MUMBAI, Dec 20: National carrier Air India’s uplift in the domestic market has gone up by 15 per cent, from 30,313 passengers a day in December 2013, to 35,100 passengers a day in the first half of December 2014.
Similarly on a network basis, its uplift has gone up by nearly 12 pc, from 45,100 passengers a day to 50,500 passengers a day. Additionally, along with its subsidiary Air India Express, AI carried 58,160 passengers in first half of December 2014, as against 53,720 last year, an 8 pc growth. Its average passenger revenue was Rs 52.70 crore a day, inclusive of AI Express during the first half of December 2014, according to an official release here today. The average passenger load factor on its domestic network was 85.2 pc and on the network as a whole was 75.0 pc, which is in line with the turnaround Plan.
Its yield on the domestic network was Rs 6.92 per ton passenger
km.
The subsidiary AI Express, also averaged passenger load factor of 81.5 pc and operated 403 flights a day, out of which 267 were on the domestic network.
Certain international routes like London, Australia, Bangkok, Singapore and Dubai which operated with the B787 aircrafts had passenger load factors of over 80 pc. On domestic sectors Kolkata and Bangalore showed high load factors ranging from 86 pc to 92 pc, it added.
(UNI)
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