Airlines reduce business seats on non-metro routes

New Delhi/Mumbai: Though the economy is booming and airlines have robust passenger growth, full-service carriers are finding it hard to fill their business class cabins across their networks.
Both Kingfisher Airlines and Jet Airways are now inducting aircraft with fewer business class seats than before. The new planes that have more economy class seats are being deployed on non-metro routes where business class traffic is low.
Kingfisher will reduce the number of business class seats on its A321 aircraft from 32 to 20, while Jet Airways already has aircraft with only economy seating.
The number of economy class seats on the Kingfisher planes will go up to 154 from 114 now.
Meanwhile, the third full-service carrier Air India (formerly Indian) operates with fewer business class seats, than the other two airlines.
08/01/08 Nirbhay Kumar & Cuckoo Paul/Economic Times

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Categories: Indian Aviation- In General Jan 2008