Riding high on the upsurge in air-passenger traffic, national air-carrier Air India has clocked a healthy growth in revenues besides a significant improvement in yields and seat-factor in the April-July period, a source said.
     
Air India carried 7.08 lakh passengers on its domestic network with a 17.3 percent market share in July.

"The airline clocked a 25.8 per cent growth in revenue at Rs 3,577 crore in the the first four-months of FY 11 as against Rs 2,843 crore, which it garnered in the corresponding period of the last fiscal," a source told PTI.      

The rise in revenue has been across both domestic and international operations, the source said, adding the air-carrier has clocked a robust 43.1 per cent growth in revenue on domestic operations during this period compared to the previous year.

"Revenue from international operations increased 16.2 per cent," the source said.

Simultaneously, the country's flagship carrier also recorded significant improvements in its seat factor and yields across its domestic and international operations.