India’s home aviation sector recorded a 5.1 per cent year-on-year improve in passenger site visitors for June 2025, totalling roughly 138.7 lakh travellers in comparison with 132.1 lakh in June 2024. Regardless of the annual uptick, there was a minor decline of 1.3 per cent in comparison with Could 2025. The primary quarter of FY2026 registered 422.4 lakh home passengers, additionally reflecting a 5.1 per cent year-on-year rise.
ICRA famous that for the total monetary 12 months FY2025 (April 2024–March 2025), home passenger numbers reached 1,653.8 lakh, representing a 7.6 per cent development—inside its projected vary of seven–10 per cent . Worldwide site visitors additionally remained strong, with Indian carriers ferrying 338.6 lakh passengers in FY2025, a year-on-year improve of 14.1 per cent . In Could 2025 alone, worldwide site visitors reached 29.7 lakh, rising 7.3 per cent from the earlier 12 months.
Nevertheless, whereas general demand remained sturdy, capability deployment has been affected. Airways elevated their seating capability by 7.3 per cent in June 2025 in comparison with the earlier 12 months, but noticed a sequential drop of seven.9 per cent as a result of world geopolitical considerations impacting operations. The typical home passenger load factor (PLF) was estimated at 85.2 per cent in June 2025, barely up from 85.0 per cent a 12 months earlier.
Fluctuating gasoline costs added additional strain. Aviation turbine gasoline (ATF) costs fell in a number of months of FY2025, together with April, June and January, leading to a median year-on-year decline of 8 per cent . Within the first 4 months of FY2026, ATF costs dropped by 12.9 per cent general—although July 2025 marked a reversal, with costs rising 7.6 per cent amid renewed geopolitical tensions.
