traffic trends india - 2008

8/14/2019 Traffic Trends India - 2008

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Author: Apeksha Kabra 1 1/5/2009

TRAFFIC TRENDS

Airport Passenger Movements

International Destinations

International Ticketing


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AIRPORT PASSENGER MOVEMENTS

TOTAL TRAFFIC HANDLED IN AUGUST 2008

Category August2008

August2007

%Change

Passengers (in million)

International 2.67 2.44 9.3

Domestic 5.76 6.94 -17.1

Total 8.43 9.38 -10.2

INTERNATIONAL PASSENGER TRAFFIC:

The international passenger traffic has registered an increase of 9.3 per cent during August 2008as compared to passenger traffic handled in August 2007. Growth rates of different categories of

airports are mentioned above and airport-wise details are given in below

Major increases (in per cent) are at :

Chennai 11.6 Delhi (DIAL) 10.9

Goa 74.2 Cochin (CIAL) 13.9

Calicut 36.1 Coimbatore 367.7

Nagpur 28.5 Mangalore 35.2

MONTH-WISE PASSENGER TRAFFIC TREND:

Month-wise passenger traffic trend has shown in the chart below:



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TABLE 3.1: TOTAL PASSENGER TRAFFIC TRENDS- AUGUST 2008 vis--vis AUGUST

2007(In million)

Airport Category August

2008

August

2007

%

ChangeTwelve InternationalAirports

2.27 2.62 -13.6

Five JV Intl Airports 5.16 5.70 -9.6

Eight Custom Airports 0.41 0.44 -5.7

Twenty One DomesticAirports

0.49 0.53 -6.7

Others Domestic Airports 0.10 0.09 6.4

Total 8.43 9.38 -10.2



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REGION WISE TREND:

The highest growth in total aircraft movement has been recorded in North East Region (2.7%)followed by Southern Region (1.3%) during the reporting month August 2008. All the regions

witnessed negative growth ranging between 8 to 19 per cent in total passengers duringAugust 2008 compared to August 2007. North East Region has witnessed highest growth of 21.8

per cent in total freight handling and followed by Eastern Region (11.2%) during August 2008over August 2007.

REGION WISE SHARE:

Southern Region has the highest percentage shares in total Aircraft Movement (36.3%) and

Passenger traffic (35.3%) followed by Western Region during August 2008. Western Region hasthe highest percentage (34.7%) share in total Freight traffic followed by Southern Region

(33.2%) during the same period.

[Source: Airport Authority of India Link: http://www.airportsindia.org.in/traffic_news/TRAUG2008.pdf]

DESTINATIONS TRENDS :

With the meltdown in global financial markets and a general recession, there were fears of a dip

in outbound travel from India. However, tourists from India continued to grow as more countriesoffershort trips to overseas destinations and have launched attractive packages to lure

travellers from India, as per figures for the January-September period shared by various

international tourism boards. According to industry sources, destinations such as, Malaysia,

Singapore, Thailand, Mauritius, Egypt, Australia and New Zealand would be making up foralmost half of Indias total outbound segment this year.

Major tour operators are functioning with the preposition of offering short-weekend segment

and working out attractive packages to woo more Indians. Indian arrivals in Malaysia are up

31% to 4.14 lakh, in the first nine months of this year, from 3.15 lakh during the same period

last year. ForMauritius, inbound figures have increased by 8% over last year.

A destination like Egypt has already received 75,000 tourists from India, a 32% increase ascompared to the same period last year. A long-haul destination like New Zealand has also

witnessed a growth of about 12% in the January-September period. However considering thecurrent economic situation, it is believed that growth from India might soften in the next six

months.

[Source: 27 Oct, 2008, Neha Raghunath - ET Bureau]

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INTERNATIONAL TICKETING:

The hike in fuel surcharge and taxes has increased the cost of international air travel from 7percent to 15 percent. Travel agents have seen a drop of 15-20 percent in international ticket

sales. But this is said to be just the tip of the iceberg and industry experts foresee an additionaldrop of 5-10 percent with another hike in fuel surcharge shortly. However, Indians will

eventually get used to it as the Indian market has enormous ability to absorb price shocks

The Aviation Turbine Fuel (ATF) hike has not impacted business traffic drastically as corporates,businessmen and Indians employed abroad continue to travel. However, businessmen will reduce

their international trips and there is an expected 1015 percent drop in business traffic.Drop in leisure outbound ticketing is expected at 510 percent. Leisure travelers are

downgrading their airline travel from business to premium economy to save costs.

Travel agents will see an overall drop of 2530 percent in ticket sales compared to the same

period last year.

[Source: Friday, July 11, 2008, AMISH MODY

Link:http://www.traveltrendstoday.in/page.asp?id=618&secid=8]

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