The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) in its latest report has showed that the domestic air passenger traffic surged 22.81 per cent to 1.24 crore in August 2023 as against 1.01 crore in the year-ago period. The overall cancellation rate of scheduled domestic airlines for the month of August 2023 has been 0.65%.

During August 2023, a total of 288 passenger related complaints had been received by the scheduled domestic airlines. The number of complaints per 10,000 passengers carried for the month of August 2023 has been around 0.23.

According to the data, with 89 per cent of its flights arriving and departing as per schedule to and from four key airports -- Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad and Bengaluru -- IndiGo had the highest on-time performance during the August month, followed by Air Asia (87.1%), Vistara (83.4%) and Akasa Air (81.4).