India had the fastest domestic passenger growth in 2015 among the world’s largest domestic markets, a new report has revealed.

With an annual growth of 18.8 per cent (in a market of 80 million domestic passengers), India’s performance surpassed that of Russia (11.9 per cent growth, in a market of 47 million domestic passengers), China (9.7 per cent growth, in a market of 394 million domestic passengers) and the US (5.4 per cent growth, in a market of 708 million domestic passengers), the International Air Transport Association (Iata) announced in its industry performance statistics for 2015.

This information was included in the recently released 60th Edition of the World Air Transport Statistics (WATS), the yearbook of the airline industry’s performance.

“Last year airlines safely carried 3.6 billion passengers—the equivalent of 48 per cent of the Earth’s population—and transported 52.2 million tonnes of cargo worth around $6 trillion. In doing so, we supported some $2.7 trillion in economic activity and 63 million jobs,” said Tony Tyler, Iata's director general and CEO. - TradeArabia News Service