The credibility of UDAN is now fairly well established and once Round Two is implemented, it will add about five per cent to the total passenger trips in the country.
THE INDIAN AVIATION INDUSTRY is busy setting one record after another. After many years of being a bit player in global aviation, the country is now poised for the big stage. It is already the world’s third largest domestic aviation market and will become the third largest market overall by 2020, according to some estimates, and latest by 2025, according to the International Air Transport Association (IATA). Figures from the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) show that for the first time ever, the country’s domestic carriers flew over ten million passengers in a single month – May 2017 – and repeated the feat in November 2017. The year 2017 was also the first when the 100 million passenger mark was breached – domestic traffic was 117.18 million against just 99.89 million in 2016. The National Civil Aviation Policy (NCAP) of June 2016 predicts some 300 million air travellers by 2022 and 500 million by 2027.
Besides these impressive figures, it is heartening that the passenger profile is gradually changing from the overwhelmingly big city types to include significant numbers from Tier-2 and Tier-3 locations that were hitherto considered commercially unattractive. This is thanks in large measure to the Regional Connectivity Scheme (RCS) also known as Ude Desh ka Aam Nagrik (UDAN), that was formally launched in October 2016.
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