New Delhi: Indian carriers have finally managed to stop the constant fall in domestic flights being witnessed ever since trouble erupted in nowgrounded Kingfisher Airlines (KFA) in late 2011.While the number of domestic weekly flights had been falling since then,this summer airlines will witness more flights than the winter schedule both minus KFA.
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Tuesday cleared 11,541 weekly domestic flights this summer 5.5% more than the winters figure of 10,935 with only Air India (domestic) reducing flights and all others increasing them.
Low cost carriers IndiGo has the maximum increase in capacity,followed by GoAir and SpiceJet with each adding flights in the range of 10% to 15%.The Jet Group has a marginal increase of 2%.
Last summer saw over 13,000 weekly domestic flights as KFAs contribution in this figure was a substantial 2,500 flights.So summer 2013 will see 11% fall from last summer.But aviation industry sources say KFA was operating a very erratic schedule since late 2011 and the fair comparison will be between the outgoing winter schedule to coming summer as these two do not account for any KFA flight.
LCCs are growing aggressively as the demand now is for budget flying only.Almost 80% of entire domestic air travel is on budget carriers.AI,which does not have a domestic LCC,is clearly out of place and has cut flights.Jet Airways has increased number of weekly flights from 2,515 (in outgoing winter schedule) to 2,802 in coming summer while reducing JetKonnects flights from 854 to 639.So their rise is very small and a lions share of increase in flights from winter to summer is coming from pure LCCs,led by IndiGo, said an airline official.
No pay,no work: Pilots threaten AI
The pilots of Air India (domestic) will ask the airline for timely pay,failing which they will implement the no-pay-no-work principle.The Indian Commercial Pilots Association is going to give a deadline to the management by which they want salary payment to be regularized,after which they may refuse to work unpaid.A source claimed the pilots have not been paid the flying allowance (which accounts for almost 80% of the total pay) since December.TNN
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The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Tuesday cleared 11,541 weekly domestic flights this summer 5.5% more than the winters figure of 10,935 with only Air India (domestic) reducing flights and all others increasing them.
Low cost carriers IndiGo has the maximum increase in capacity,followed by GoAir and SpiceJet with each adding flights in the range of 10% to 15%.The Jet Group has a marginal increase of 2%.
Last summer saw over 13,000 weekly domestic flights as KFAs contribution in this figure was a substantial 2,500 flights.So summer 2013 will see 11% fall from last summer.But aviation industry sources say KFA was operating a very erratic schedule since late 2011 and the fair comparison will be between the outgoing winter schedule to coming summer as these two do not account for any KFA flight.
LCCs are growing aggressively as the demand now is for budget flying only.Almost 80% of entire domestic air travel is on budget carriers.AI,which does not have a domestic LCC,is clearly out of place and has cut flights.Jet Airways has increased number of weekly flights from 2,515 (in outgoing winter schedule) to 2,802 in coming summer while reducing JetKonnects flights from 854 to 639.So their rise is very small and a lions share of increase in flights from winter to summer is coming from pure LCCs,led by IndiGo, said an airline official.
No pay,no work: Pilots threaten AI
The pilots of Air India (domestic) will ask the airline for timely pay,failing which they will implement the no-pay-no-work principle.The Indian Commercial Pilots Association is going to give a deadline to the management by which they want salary payment to be regularized,after which they may refuse to work unpaid.A source claimed the pilots have not been paid the flying allowance (which accounts for almost 80% of the total pay) since December.TNN
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