Mumbai: The on-time performance report of flights at the city airport for January 2012 reads like entries made in the school diary of a habitual adolescent latecomer, except that the latter is more innovative.
The excuses run the whole gamut, from the very grave to the mildly serious to the somewhat frivolous and the rather hard to digest. They are repetitive, some cited as often as over 300 times. And all eventually lead to the inevitable delay.
As per the report, submitted by airport operator Mumbai International Airport Limited (MIAL) to the Union Civil Aviation Ministry, every single day of January, an average of about 80 flights took off after a holdup of over a quarter of an hour.
The six largest domestic carriers Air India, Go Air, Indigo, Jet Airways, Kingfisher and Spicejet - operated a total of 7,603 flights in the month of January. Of these, 2,461 flights were kept waiting for more than 15 minutes, the report says.
From the document, it is apparent that punctuality is not a virtue of kings. For the biggest laggard is the state carrier, the Maharaja, which leads the pack in delays - as it does in debts - with 55 per cent of its flights taking off later than the scheduled. Jet Airways comes a close second, followed by Kingfisher, which is a distant third.
03/03/12 MiD DAY/IBN Live
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