Friday, March 13, 2009

Air India declared as Number one carrier in October-December’08

Economic crisis had hit the tourism in India last year, whole travel industry including the airlines industry was affected by it, and still Air India emerged as number one in passenger carriage as well as aircraft movement globally. Though in overall share Gulf carriers lead the market in passenger carriage. Jet Airways has the second highest aircraft movement, is third on the passenger carriage list with a 9% market share. After starting international operations last year Kingfisher airlines is at number 46.

The figures reported by AAI this year shows Gulf airlines dominated the past giants The European carriers. The 71% market share is dominated by top 20 airlines out of which Gulf carriers control 27% with Emirates on top. The others are Air Arabia, Qatar Airways, Saudi Arabian Airlines, Oman Air, Gulf Air, Etihad and Kuwait Airways. Five South-East Asian airlines cover the 13% of market share in the top-20 list that includes Singapore Airlines, Cathay Pacific, Thai, Sri Lankan airlines and Malaysian airlines.

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