New Delhi, May
28:
The Civil
Aviation Ministry has constituted a committee for rationalisation of routes for
Air India.
While
announcing the decision, the Civil Aviation Minister, Mr Ajit Singh, said that
the committee would recommend rationalising the routes keeping in view the
overall objective of profitability. The committee is expected to give its
report within a week.
The committee
will be headed by the Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Civil Aviation, Mr G.
Asok Kumar. Mr S. Nasir Ali, Director in the Ministry; Mr S.C. Sharma,
Executive Director with the Airports Authority of India; and Mr Lalit Gupta,
Deputy Director General of Civil Aviation, will be the members of the
committee.
The committee
will recommend route wise withdrawal or continuation of flights during current
summer schedule and how to make them profitable. It will identify the
parameters for new route allocation and their weightage for arriving at a
decision.
The committee
will also analyse the criteria for withdrawal or inclusion of routes in the
summer and winter schedule during last year.
It has been
asked to analyse economies of various routes on domestic and international
sectors during last summer, winter and this summer schedule. It has also been
asked to identify the routes not able to meet out various costs and reasons for
not meeting out those costs.
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