India records highest domestic passenger traffic-IATA.

India recorded the highest domestic passenger growth this July at over 20 per cent, followed by Brazil at about 18 per cent, though the growth was slower for international air traffic.

"Brazil and India recorded the highest growth rates of 17.8 per cent and 20.6 per cent respectively. Both were stronger than June's performance," the International Air Transport Association announced in its traffic results which showed that the global passenger travel was up 5.9 per cent over the same period last year.

However, in most other countries, domestic air travel demand remained "much more sluggish than that for international travel", the latest IATA figures showed.

In the international market, Asia-Pacific carriers had a capacity increase of 5.8 per cent which exceeded the demand growth of 4.9 per cent.

Asia-pacific passenger load factors fell slightly to 80.2 per cent.

But in the freight market, Asia-Pacific carriers continued to "show the weakest freight performance" with a 3.6 per cent decline compared to July last. Middle East and Latin American carriers showed the strongest performance with gains of 8.4 and 8.2 per cent respectively, the figures showed.

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