4 flights withdrawn for want of passengers

Jaipur: The spiralling price of air turbine fuel (ATF) and the low pas-senger load have forced some airlines to suspend select flights from the Sanganer airport.
At least four flights on select sectors were withdrawn by private op-erators like Jetlite, Kingfisher and GoAir, confirmed airport sources.
However, the officials at these private airlines refused to give any official reason behind the grounding of these flights.
The Sanganer airport is connected to 10 cities with eight domestic airlines operating an average flight count of 32 daily, flying in and out a total of around 3,000 passengers everyday.
The airlines’ officials, however, confided that the number of passengers on these routes have reduced this season and blameed the rising air turbine fuel price for this.
“The rise in aviation fuel has in turn led to rise in price of tickets. Air travel has now become a costly affair for the passenger,’’ said an official of a private airline, pleading anonymity.
To deal with the rising aviation fuel price, the airlines have raised their fuel surcharge by 10% to 15%. This means that if you are flying to a destination upto 750 kms, the minimum cost of a ticket would be Rs 2,250, and beyond 750 kms, you will have to cough up Rs 2,800, said an airport official.
21/06/08 Times of India

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