Surat: The Diamond city's hopes for air connectivity with Mumbai were dashed when Air India, a part of the Indian government owned Air India Limited (AIL), outrightly rejected the demand.
Air India (AI) said it is unable to implement routing the Mumbai-Delhi-Mumbai services or other services via Surat due to aircraft rotation constraints and that the one-stop services would affect AI's loads and revenues. The reply has come from the deputy general manager (administration) of AI in response to a letter written by Utpal Mistry, CEO of Lexus group, a leading diamond processing machinery manufacturer on Tuesday.
Mistry had sent a letter to the Union ministry of aviation seeking its reply on increasing flight services from the Surat airport on June 22. The letter was forwarded by the ministry to AI for drafting a reply for the same.
In her email reply (a copy of which is with TOI) on Tuesday, P D Menon, AI's deputy general manager (administration) stated that the suggestion to route the Mumbai-Delhi-Mumbai services or other services via Surat is not viable as Air India is unable to implement it due to aircraft rotation constraints. The aircraft operating on Mumbai-Delhi-Mumbai route are deployed to operate other services on its network.
31/08/11 Melvyn Thomas/Times of India
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