IndiGo tops Indian aviation sector with 37% market share

IndiGo continued to remain at the top by increasing its market share in aviation sector to 37 per cent even as new entrant Vistara made improvements in its seat occupancy figures.

According to statistics for February provided by Directorate General of Civil Aviation, IndiGo had 37.1 per cent market share last month, which is an increase from 36.4 per cent.

Only Jet Airways, which came second wth 19.8 per cent, and Vistara could manage to improve their market share last month. Vistara, which entered the second month of operation in February also improved its seat occupancy rate from first month's 45.4 per cent to 58.6 per cent.

However, Vistara cancelled more flights than any other domestic carrier. Vistara cancelled 2.28 per cent of its total number of flights during the reporting month as against an industry average of 0.6 per cent, the DGCA said.

Vistara was operating from four airports — Delhi, Mumbai, Ahmedabad and Goa — during the period under review with the last stop added to its network on February 20. The airline was closely followed by Jet Airways subsidiary JetLite, whose cancellation rate was 1.86 per cent while AirAsia India, the domestic arm of the Malaysian carrier, cancelled 1.50 per cent of its total flights during the month.  IndiGo had the lowest cancellation rate of only 0.15 per cent.