Indian aviation made history on November 17, 2024 with airlines carrying over 5 lakh domestic passengers in a single day, for the first time in the history. All airlines together carried 5,05,412 domestic passengers across 3173 domestic departures. This marks the steady push for the last two weeks with days of peaks in air traffic, November 08 recording 4.9 lakh passengers, November 09 reporting 4.96 lakh passengers. This was followed by Nov 14 and Nov 15 recording 4.97 lakh, 4.99 lakh passengers, and Nov 16 recording 4.98 lakh passengers until the final mark was made.
This comes amidst a relatively muted October leading up to Diwali and IndiGo announcing its Q2-FY25 results just before Diwali and reporting a loss after seven consecutive quarters of profit. IndiGo had then mentioned that yields have normalised from the earlier high yield environment. This is also an indicator that traffic is moving post Diwali rather than during Diwali with the wedding season kicking off and there is a remarkable shift from school holiday centric traffic to festivities centric traffic.
