Full-service carriers, Air India (AI) and Jet Airways, along with their no-frill subsidiaries, Alliance Air and JetLite, would operate less number of flights, while all no-frill airlines like IndiGo, SpiceJet and GoAir, would significantly increase flights and augment capacity this season.
With rising costs, Indian carriers would be operating 19 per cent less number of flights this winter compared to last year, though no-frill airlines would put in more flights during the busy season starting this month-end.
Full-service carriers, Air India (AI) and Jet Airways, along with their no-frill subsidiaries, Alliance Air and JetLite, would operate less number of flights, while all no-frill airlines like IndiGo, SpiceJet and GoAir, would significantly increase flights and augment capacity this season, according to the winter schedule of flights approved by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Wednesday.
Interestingly, the flight schedule of crisis-ridden Kingfisher Airlines has not been approved by the DGCA. Kingfisher, which has declared a lockout till October 20 with its employees on strike to demand pending wages, had last year flown 2,930 flights.
In all, 10,935 departures per week have been approved, which translate into 1,562 daily departures to and from 73 airports, a DGCA official said. The total number of departures last year was 13,541, reflecting a 19 per cent drop this year.
While Air India-Alliance Air would operate 2,169 flights, compared to 2,313 last year, Jet Airways-JetLite would together fly 3,369 services compared to 3,780 in 2011, the data showed.
The busy winter season begins on October 28 and goes on until March 31.
Industry sources said the full-service airlines, which have been making significant losses, were careful not to enhance capacity but match it with demand in order to prevent higher operational losses, primarily due to high fuel cost.
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