I was not aware of the daily reports on the Ministry of Civil Aviation website, thanks for pointing it out. The Wayback Machine seems to have fairly regular snapshots of the website over the past couple of years:
https://web.archive.org/web/20240000000000*/https://www.civilaviation.gov.in/I've made an attempt at using the snapshots available on the Wayback Machine to generate a CSV containing data from earlier months:
https://flatgithub.com/Vonter/india-aviation-traffic?filename=aggregated/daily.csv&stickyColumnName=DateThe code itself is on the same GitHub repository:
https://github.com/Vonter/india-aviation-trafficI noticed that there are some days where the data on the site is not updated (even when the Wayback Machine fetches an updated version of the page), so there are many days with data gaps. Also, the structure of the page has changed over the years, which I attempted to handle in the scripts but that may have broken parsing on some of the days. If you notice any issues with the data or the code, do let me know.
If you've got data covering an entire month, it may be a good idea to see if it matches the numbers put out by DGCA. I'm not too familiar with how these statistics are collected by MCA/DGCA, but I wonder if one of them may include certain categories of flights (chartered/non-scheduled/private) in their counts which the other does not.