New Delhi, April 25:
Jet Airways, Air India, SpiceJet and IndiGo will have to submit fresh proposals to the Ministry of Civil Aviation seeking permission to operate more flights to Abu Dhabi.
The additional seats have become available with the Governments of India and Abu Dhabi agreeing late on Wednesday night to allow their airlines to operate 36,670 seats a week in the next three years. At present , airlines from both the sides are allowed to operate 13,600 seats a week.
“Earlier the Ministry had sought to assess the initial demand from airlines and it was on this basis that the bilateral was concluded. Now, we will assess whether the airlines have enough aircraft, and their plans include flying from cities from which there is demand before making a final decision on allocation,” a senior official in the Ministry of Civil Aviation said.
Before the Indian delegation left for Abu Dhabi, Jet Airways had sought its approval to operate 42,000 seats a week while Air India Express sought an additional 3,000 seats.
IndiGo and SpiceJet had sought permission to operate an additional 5,000 seats a week.
In case the demand on a particular route outstrips the weekly seats allocated by the Ministry, then a decision will be taken after looking at the numbers of passengers and the distance that the various claimant airlines have flown in the domestic skies in the last three years.
India has also put a restriction on the number of daily flights and weekly seats that Abu Dhabi national carrier Etihad can operate to both Mumbai and Delhi from Abu Dhabi.
“Etihad can now operate 3,300 seats a week up from about 1,800 seats a week earlier, but it cannot operate more than two flights a day to these two metros. At smaller Indian airports there is a restriction on the number of seats that Etihad can operate a week but there is no restriction on how many flights a day they can operate,” an official said.
http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/todays-paper/tp-economy/airlines-have-to-apply-fresh-for-more-flights-to-abu-dhabi/article4654838.ece
Jet Airways, Air India, SpiceJet and IndiGo will have to submit fresh proposals to the Ministry of Civil Aviation seeking permission to operate more flights to Abu Dhabi.
The additional seats have become available with the Governments of India and Abu Dhabi agreeing late on Wednesday night to allow their airlines to operate 36,670 seats a week in the next three years. At present , airlines from both the sides are allowed to operate 13,600 seats a week.
“Earlier the Ministry had sought to assess the initial demand from airlines and it was on this basis that the bilateral was concluded. Now, we will assess whether the airlines have enough aircraft, and their plans include flying from cities from which there is demand before making a final decision on allocation,” a senior official in the Ministry of Civil Aviation said.
Before the Indian delegation left for Abu Dhabi, Jet Airways had sought its approval to operate 42,000 seats a week while Air India Express sought an additional 3,000 seats.
IndiGo and SpiceJet had sought permission to operate an additional 5,000 seats a week.
In case the demand on a particular route outstrips the weekly seats allocated by the Ministry, then a decision will be taken after looking at the numbers of passengers and the distance that the various claimant airlines have flown in the domestic skies in the last three years.
India has also put a restriction on the number of daily flights and weekly seats that Abu Dhabi national carrier Etihad can operate to both Mumbai and Delhi from Abu Dhabi.
“Etihad can now operate 3,300 seats a week up from about 1,800 seats a week earlier, but it cannot operate more than two flights a day to these two metros. At smaller Indian airports there is a restriction on the number of seats that Etihad can operate a week but there is no restriction on how many flights a day they can operate,” an official said.
http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/todays-paper/tp-economy/airlines-have-to-apply-fresh-for-more-flights-to-abu-dhabi/article4654838.ece
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