Air India has registered an increase both in terms of the number of passengers carried by it and its revenue in May this year as against the corresponding period last year.
The month of May this year has proved to be “another good month” for the national carrier with its passenger revenue per day jumping by nearly 20 per cent from last year’s Rs 38 crore to Rs 44 crore this year. The average number of passengers carried by the airline in May also increased by five per cent from 45,230 last year to 47,700.
The passenger load factor on the domestic network was 80 per cent last month and in the international sector it was 73 per cent. The airline also achieved ‘on-time performance’ of 81 per cent.
“The yield on the domestic sector was Rs 7.41 per passenger kilometre (PKM) and in the overall network it was Rs 4.47 PKM which reflects a 10 per cent increase vis-a-vis last year,” the spokesman said.
Meanwhile, the national carrier’s low-cost arm Air India Express also recorded increased passenger revenue and number of passengers carried by it in May.
The average revenue of Air India Express, which operates mostly in the Gulf sector, per day was Rs 8.13 crores and it flew 8,500 passengers last month. Its passenger load factor touched an all-time high of 90 per cent on international sector in May while the yields also reached to Rs 4.08 per PKM, he said.