Airlines may have to fly more on commercially-unviable routes

New Delhi: Domestic airlines, such as Jet Airways, Air India, Kingfisher, Simplifly Deccan and SpiceJet, may soon be required to deploy more capacity on commercially unviable routes, such as Jorhat and Lilabari in Assam and Pasighat and Tezu in Arunachal Pradesh.
The government is planning to double the mandatory capacity deployment on category-IIA routes to 2% under the new route dispersal guidelines. The government is also likely to reduce the mandatory capacity deployment on category II routes to 8% from the current 10%.
The present route dispersal guidelines require all scheduled carriers in the country to deploy 10% of the total capacity on trunk routes (category I routes) on category II sectors such as Guwahati and Srinagar and 1% of the capacity deployed on category I routes on category IIA routes such as Lakshadweep (Agatti) and Andaman and Nicobar.
The civil aviation ministry is considering a suggestion from the North East Council (NEC) to ask airlines to provide more intra-connectivity in the region, considered highly inaccessible.
03/11/07 Nirbhay Kumar/Economic Times

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Categories: General Aviation Nov 2007