An India first: IndiGo flies 10m passengers in November |

The Delhi-based low-cost airline IndiGo flew over 10 million passengers in November. “Thrilled to fly over 10 million customers in a single month. Thank you for trusting us to take you places,” the airline tweeted. In October, the airline flew 8.64 million passengers, of which 13.6 million were flown during the month by all airlines. The announcement comes almost a year after IndiGo announced in December last year that it had flown 100 million passengers in a year. [caption id="attachment_64892" align="aligncenter" width="580"] IndiGo in the Flight Line[/caption] How does IndiGo stack against global airlines? IndiGo, an 18-year-old airline carrying over 10 million monthly passengers, is a significant achievement. Now, it needs to be seen whether the airline, which has a domestic market share of over 60 percent, can repeat the feat. By comparison, United Airlines' announcement of Full-Year and Fourth-Quarter 2023 results said it carried 165 million passengers or a monthly average of 13.75 million. The United statement was issued in January this year. Emirates's annual report for 2023-24 said it flew 51.9 million passengers, or a monthly average of 4.32 million passengers, while Qatar Airways flew over 40 million passengers during the 2023-24 fiscal year, a monthly average of 3.33 million passengers. Indian market follows troughs and peaks. Generally, the Indian air travel market follows a systemic path. During October through December, there is a pick-up in air travel due to the festive season. Then, between January and March, air travel drops as the fiscal year ends, and children are preparing for examinations, dampening the travel spirit. Between May and into the summer, the season spikes again as schools and colleges close. Analyst View Commenting on the IndiGo tweet, Satyendra Pandey, Managing Managing Partner of Aairavat Technology & Transport Ventures Private Ltd, said that the data point published by IndiGo was intriguing. “Standalone and without context it amounts to a meaningless metric. Because while IndiGo carried 10 million passengers in November, similar numbers were reported by Southwest Airlines in the United States while RyanAir in Europe carried a multiple of that passenger volume,” he adds. Pandey says various stakeholders require varying contexts on the metric. “For investors it would be whether the passengers were transported profitably, for policymakers whether the passengers were transported in line with stated policy goals, and for consumers whether they were transported in a safe, efficient and affordable manner,” he said. He added that the published data point came a day after some list was published where airlines were ranked on parameters that were not quite clearly defined. “Our sense is IndiGo would have been better served by choosing not to respond at all,” Pandey added.

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