Domestic carriers cut weekly departures by 4% this summer

New Delhi: The domestic airline industry will overall reduce its weekly departures by almost 4 per cent in the summer schedule which starts from March-end this year.
The 10,609 weekly departures being planned from March-end is the lowest clocked by the industry since 2007 when the weekly departures stood at 10,624.
However, official data made available to Business Line show that Indian, Jet Airways and at least three low-cost airlines — SpiceJet, Go Air and IndiGo — all plan to increase their weekly departures in the summer schedule. On the other hand, Alliance Air, the 100 per cent subsidiary of Indian, JetLite and the Chennai-based Paramount plan to reduce their weekly departures in their summer schedule 2010 as compared to what they operated previously.
The State-owned Indian will register the highest growth in weekly take-offs (8 per cent) with 1,694 weekly departures from March this year, against 1,568 previously. Jet Airways has reported an increase of about 5 per cent in the number of weekly departures this March at 2,330 as against 2,212.
26/03/10 Ashwini Phadnis/Business Line

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Categories: Indian Aviation- In General Mar 2010