Agents flooded with calls to re-slot flights

Mumbai: As news of the August 18 strike by private airlines spread, travel agents across the city began to get frantic calls to reschedule flights. "Unfortunately, there's no guarantee of getting a seat on the previous or the following day,'' says Ajay Prakash, general secretary of the Travel Agents' Federation of India.
Frequent flyers believe that the private airlines are threatening the government to accept their demand for a bailout. "By inconveniencing passengers, the airlines are almost forcing the government to respond. No private enterprise should be doing that,'' says Mohan Joshi, an IT professional and a frequent flyer.
While flyers fear that the airlines might have their way, Air Passengers Association of India (APAI) feels that the government should come down heavily on them.
01/08/09 Chinmayi Shalya/Times of India

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Categories: Indian Aviation- In General Aug 2009