India, Jan. 23 -- Domestic airlines carried 16.13 million passengers in 2024, which was higher than 15.2 million ferried during the same period in 2023, civil aviation regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) revealed on Wednesday.

The data also showed that on a month-to-month basis, the increase in passengers carried was 8.19% compared to the same months in the previous year.

Among the big commercial airlines in the country (Air India group, IndiGo, Akasa Air and SpiceJet), the December traffic report stated, low-cost carrier SpiceJet had the maximum rate of cancellations, IndiGo stood second. The overall cancellation rate of scheduled domestic airlines for December 2024 stood at 1.07%.

The airline with the highest cance...