new delhi domestic air travel is slowly and steadily reviving in india after being allowed to resume in mayend following a two month suspension last month saw 527 lakh people fly within the country while this figure is 57 less than 12 crore of october 2019 it is almost onethird 337 more than the 394 lakh domestic travellers in the immediately preceding month of september 2020indigo had 555 domestic market share last month followed by spicejets 134 air indias 94 goairs 75 airasia indias 71 vistaras 64 and others accounting for the remaining 07the two tata jv airlines which could soon be merged as airasia puling out is becoming increasingly likely will have a combined market share of over 13 bringing it almost at par with financially frail spicejet air indias future could be decided by the outcome of its divestment process which will be known next month unless the privatisation deadline is extended yet againscheduled domestic flights were suspended on march 25 and allowed to resume partially on may 25 june the first full month postresumption saw 198 lakh domestic flyers down 83 from 12 crore in same month last year in subsequent weeks as travel numbers picked up the government gradually allowed airlines to mount more flights and currently 70 of precovid level of domestic operations are allowedall big airlines except vistara saw they aircraft occupancy rise in festive october over september october domestic load factors for big airlines ranged from spicejets 74 to goairs 618