Chennai: The Indian Commercial Pilots Association has now objected to the office order issued last week wherein all flights to Mumbai have to carry 1.5 tonnes extra fuel.
“The circular states that 1.5 tonnes of extra fuel should be carried as a constant figure for all Airbus 319/320/321/330 which have different fuel consumptions. What cost study has been done to arrive at this figure of 1.5 tonnes ? The company on one hand is trying to promote cost cutting by fuel saving which is one of the major expenditures. To achieve this, the company has spent hundreds of crores of rupees for zero fuel weight flight plan which on implementation will result in optimum fuel consumption and cost cutting. Instead of training the crew for this ZFW flight plans, an arbitrary figure of 1.5 tonnes of extra fuel has been decided to be carried,” Capt AS Bhinder stated in the letter.
An additional carriage of fuel results in extra fuel consumption from 15% to 30% (amounting to an increase of approximately Rs 30,000 per sector per flight into Mumbai) and hence will result in increase in the cost of operation of each flight into Mumbai.
This extra fuel, pilots say, will result in an increase in gross weight, decrease in optimum altitude leading to more fuel burnt and consumption.
20/04/11 ExpressBuzz
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