Air transport statistics India

Air traffic and air travel statistics covering India

This page was last edited on : Saturday, March 06, 2004

Introductory note
India is a vast country with a large population. The Indian travel market is still at its infancy, and it may take quite a few years before it is developed, but when this happens, we will take about many million travellers, not only flight domestic flights within the country but making trips abroad. Economic ties with its big neighbor which is China have not been rally developed. But imagine just one moment what would happen in terms of passenger traffic when two adjacent countries which are among the largest in the world in terms of population, develop such links !!!

For the time being, there are two distinct international travel markets to and from India : (a) the Gulf travel market, made up of Indian seasonal workers, mainly involved with construction work in the Gulf States. This market was affected by the Gulf crisis in 1991. (b) the other international travel markets, with most of this traffic generated from abroad (a mixture of ethnic ties and tourism).

Geographical Maps
If you want to see interesting maps of India, click here.

Socio-economic data
There are several sites talking about the economy of India. One of them is Media-Web (click here). Another one is MakroIndia (click here).

General comments on aviation statistics
Statistics on air traffic are comprehensive, but the difficulty we face in using them is that they are covering fiscal years (April-March), so any reconcilation with other sources could be difficult.

Civil aviation statistics
The Air Transport Directorate put together every year a comprehensive report titled "India Air Transport Statsitics". Statistics are broken down by airline and by airport. They list the main origin-destination flows for passenger and cargo traffic. They build up histroical timeseries for the key indicators of air transport activity. They shwo also monthly profiles. Such document can be obtained from :

The Statistical Officer
Air Transport Directorate
OFFICE OF THE DIRECTORATE OF CIVIL AVIATION
Opposite Safdarjung Airport
New Delhi
India

Airport statistics
There is an organisation in India which gather traffic statistics covering Indian airports. The name of this organisation is :

AIRPORTS AUTHORITY OF INDIA
International Airport Division
Operations office Complex
Gurgaon Road
New Delhi 110037
India
Tel : +9111-565 2896
Fax : +9111-565 2839 or 2830

This organisation put together a "Review of Traffic" covering the airports of Bombay, calcutta, Delhi, Madras and Trivandrum and showing traffic detail by airport, by month, by type of traffic, but not by origin-destination.

Visitor statistics
(to be described at a later stage)

Miscellaneous statistics
(to be described at a later stage)