India: fastest growth in domestic air traffic worldwide

If you had been asked the question, you could have answered that c‛est China has the strongest growth in domestic air traffic. Well, you would have been wrong. It is in India that domestic traffic is exploding. Although ‛l’india is still the second most populous country in the world after china. Experts estimate that India will overtake China by 2022. The US, the third largest country in the world, has a much smaller population of 323 million. 

However, domestic traffic is still modest

India has the fastest growth in domestic passenger traffic in the world in 2015,

Domestic passenger traffic soared in 2015 by 18.8%, That is more than 80 million domestic passengers. While growth is the strongest in the world, India’s domestic aviation market is only ranked 9th in the world. Domestic air traffic in China is 394 million passengers and in the United States it is 708 million passengers.

The Asia-Pacific region ahead of the United States in pax

Airlines in the Asia-Pacific region (including India), once again produced the largest number of air passengers.

Asia-Pacific represents a 34% market share with 1.2 billion passengers, an increase of 10% compared to 2014. In second place is Europe with a market share of 26.2% and 935.5 million passengers.

Next comes North America with a market share of 24.8% and 883.2 million.

The domestic air market is protected but for how long?

The internal market is still protected but not for long. To overcome the obstacles, some airlines have teamed up with Indian partners such as the Tata group with Singapore Airlines for Vistara and AirAsia group for AirAsia India.

Southeast d‛Asie companies at l‛assaut from l‛Inde

As a result of new regulations, Southeast Asian airlines can now add additional stopovers in India.

They will be able to compete fiercely with Gulf companies in this area.

For example, Singapore Airlines Group is now the largest foreign airline in India in terms of number of airlines and d‛escales The Singapore group is flying l‛ensemble from its airlines (Singapore Airlines, Silk Air, Scoot and Tiger Airways). The low-cost Scoot airline has opened routes between Singapore and Chennai and Amritsar and from d‛Octobre it will be between Singapore and Jaipur.

Serge Fabre