Airlines submit action plan to DGCA

New Delhi: Kingfisher Airlines and Air India Express on Monday submitted their respective responses on time-bound plans to address air safety and financial aspects in the wake of the DGCA (Director General of Civil Aviation) finding glaring lapses regarding these matters in its audit reports.
The budget carrier IndiGo also sent in its reply on the shortcomings found by the aviation regulator. The DGCA had found all major airlines compromising with safety and directed them to resolve all such issues in a time-bound manner.
The DGCA also asked the carriers to respond to the findings this week and take urgent action to rectify the situation. Among various issues, Kingfisher was asked to submit a plan on recovery of its flights and recapitalisation of the airline.
The DGCA’s financial surveillance report had said that “a reasonable case exists for withdrawal of their airline operator permit as their financial stress is likely to impinge on safety.”
About Air India Express the audit report said that it had shortage of pilots, check pilots and cabin crew and did not have deputy chief of flight safety, uses simulators of Jet Airways to train pilots. The Air India simulators remained unserviceable, it added.
Regarding Jet Airways it says its number of trainers is not as per the norm and the international stations are not audited for two years. The airline cancelled one-third of flights in 2011 due to poor loads. The JetLight lacks pilots and cabin crew and has no software for black box, the report adds.
09/01/12 Deccan Herald

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