AirAsia India reports 42% increase in passenger traffic in Q2

New Delhi: AirAsia India reported a 42% increase, in the number of passengers it carried, to 5.89 lakh in the September ended quarter.

Budget carrier AirAsia India (AAI) flew 5.89 lakh passengers in three months ended September, 2016, a 42% increase from the number of passengers who flew in the airline in the year-ago period.

The airline during the quarter added three new destinations in its route network while capacity (number of total seats flown) increased by 23 % to 6.72 lakh, AirAsia said in a statement on Oct. 31.

 The number of passengers carried (by AirAsia India) increased 42 % YoY to 0.59 million (5.89 lakh), while the capacity increased by 23 % in July-September quarter of the current year, AirAsia said. In AAI, while Tata Sons and Malaysian no-frills airline AirAsia Berhad each holds 49 % stake, two of the airline's directors, S Ramadorai and R Venkataramanan, hold 2 % stake. Three new routes --Bengaluru-Guwahati, Bengaluru-Hyderabad and Hyderabad-Goa were added in the flight network during the quarter while frequencies were scaled up on the Bengaluru-Goa route.