Summer Schedule 2025: Domestic airlines to operate 5.5% more flights on YoY basis

The overall flight operations of domestic airlines are set to rise by 5.5 per cent on a year-on-year basis in the summer schedule, effective from March 30 to October 25, 2025.

According to the 2025 schedule released by the regulator, DGCA, the overall flight departures will rise to 25,610 per week from 24,275 per week during the summer schedule 2024.

However, on a sequential basis, flight departures during the summer schedule 2025 (SS25) grew only by 2.41 per cent per week compared to the winter schedule 2024 (WS24).

“It has been observed that there are 25,610 departures per week which have been finalised to and from 129 airports as per ‘SS25’ compared to 25,007 departures per week from 124 airports in WS24,” the DGCA said in a statement on the summer schedule for 2025.

“Out of these 129 airports, Ambikapur, Datia, Bidar, Porbandar, Pakyong, Rewa, and Solapur are the new airports proposed by the scheduled airlines, whereas operations from Azamgarh and Rupsi airports were suspended in the summer schedule 2025.”

As per ‘SS25,’ IndiGo had the highest number of flights approved under the schedule.

Under the approved schedule, IndiGo will operate 14,158 flights per week, up 8.49% on a y-o-y basis, followed by Air India at 4,310, up 89.20 per cent, Air India Express at 3,375, up 38.49 per cent, Akasa Air at 1,089, up 20.60 per cent, whereas the approved flight strength of SpiceJet went down by 25.17 per cent to 1,240 and that of Alliance Air by 41.96 per cent to 520.

Additionally, Star Air’s approved flight strength rose to 58.31 per cent to 505 and Fly91 by 515 per cent to 123. FlyBig will operate 176 flights and IndiaOne 114.