Copyright © HT Digital Streams Limit all rights reserved. All three leading Indian airlines – Indigo, Air India Group and Akasa – acquire new aircraft. (Photo by Satyabrata Tripathy/Hindustan Times) Summary with bags of rapid growth amid the overall steady growth and falling fuel prices, airlines in India are in a decent place in the lean season. A people of good news fly from the Indian aviation sector. Indigo, the leader in the sector, has just done his best fourth quarter in the best place. There is a new Mumbai airport that is about to start operations, giving India’s commercial capital a much -needed capacity. Several mid -level airports are putting together the growth in traffic above industry. The international segment has crossed an important historical level that is good for future growth. With fuel prices also falling, airlines are in a decent shape in the lean season. Here are five takeaways from the latest data coming from the aviation sector. Airports: Mumbai relief on May 28 said it would kick off flights at the second airport in Mumbai, the coming one in Navi Mumbai, with 18 daily domestic room, or 36 aircraft movements. Furthermore, it estimated that it was increased by November to 79 daily departure (158 aircraft movements). Although neither the airline nor the airport announced the exact date of the first flight, it was reported in June or July. For Mumbai, the new airport is a capacity relief that is in arrears. The existing airport has been working on capacity for several years. Even if airlines wanted to add more flights, the airport did not have slots to offer it. Meanwhile, Bengaluru climbed into the second slot in domestic flights on Mumbai and even overtook it in March and April. How much of this is due to Bengaluru’s own growth and how much due to Mumbai’s capacity restrictions will become clear as soon as Navi Mumbai Airport stabilizes. Airlines: Catch the leader for Indigo, the leader in the field of domestic aviation in India, the commissioning of Navi Mumbai Airport will give it more room for expansion. Since the inception in 2006, it has fallen away, added aircraft, destinations and compounds. In the process, it weans away the market share of other airlines, several of which pursue more aggressive and pre -loaded extensions. After a purification and consolidation, Indian Aviation is now mainly a two-horse race between Indigo and the Air India Group. The consolidation was led by the Tatas-Own Air India Group, with two sets of mergers at the end of 2024. The latest data shows that the Air India group has lost domestic share-though in a growing market-in 2025. One reason may be that Air India prefers to renovate some of its fleet. Much of this renovation is expected to be completed in phases in 2025 – while Indigo is expanding. International: Tier-2 picks for the period from January to March 2025 placed Indigo its best fourth quarter and delivered a net profit of £ 3.067 crore. In addition to the domestic segment, Indigo has also gradually expanded in the international segment. This increased its international passenger share of 18.2% in the December 2023 term to 19.4% in the December 2024 term, the youngest for which such data is available. At airport level, the movements of international flights increased by 9.4% in 2024-25. Delhi and Mumbai grew 7-8%. Of the 46 airports that international traffic saw in 2024-25, 16 grew more than 20% in flight movements. These 16 airports account for only 14% of all international movements, and it embodies the broadening of the international pie-of-the-most metros to tiger-II metros. Nine of them scored at least 1,000 international aircraft movements in 2024-25, and Bengaluru is the only most important Metro Airport among them. MATIES: Pandemic recovery Such bags of strong growth support the restoration of the international segment. According to the Indian regulator data, there were 346 destination pairings (for example, Delhi-Dubai is one mating) in the international segment in the October to December 2024 quarter, the latest available for this data. In the last quarter of the calendar year, this is the first time since the pandemic that the number of destination pairings crossed the pre-pandemic highlight in the December 2018 quarter. Take Bengaluru, the largest of the set of 16 airports in 2024-25, with more than 1,000 international flight movements and more than 20% year-on-year growth. It went from 21 active international mating in the December 2023 term to 25 in the December 2024 term, with the addition Denpasar, Langkawi, Phuket and Port Louis. Similarly, Lucknow went from 8 to 11, and Jaipur from 4 to 5. Fuel: Bottomline benefit Similar growth is also seen in the domestic segment-9.1% in passenger growth in 2024-25. All three leading Indian airlines – Indigo, Air India Group and Akasa – acquire new aircraft and have a healthy order pipeline. In addition to a steady operating environment, the current oil prices prospects are also favorable. Over the past year, the price of Brent -Ru has dropped by about 23 % per barrel. During the same period, the price of domestic aviation turbine fuel (ATF) at Delhi’s terminal 3 dropped about 16%. Also read: Indigo’s Q1 indecency to be temporary as the price of crude oil soften, capacity grows, fuel is the greatest cost of airlines, and a fall in prices increases their bottom lines. In the March 2025 quarter, the Fuel Costs of Indigo as a share in the turnover were 30.5%. By comparison, in the September 2024 quarter, which is a slim season and when ATF prices were higher, it was 39%. 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