Flying to nearby cities abroad to get cheaper

New Delhi: Air travel to East and West Asia is set to get easier, with carriers SpiceJet and IndiGo expanding their capacity for these destinations, following a green signal to do so.
Indian air carriers are well behind foreign peers in utilising the traffic rights allocated under the bilateral services agreements India has signed with 109 countries. There are 834,000 weekly seats on international air routes connecting all these countries with India. Indian airlines have been able to utilise only 23 per cent of the total seat allocations till now; after the new set of permissions, this is set to increase to 40 per cent.
Underserved to a great extent are short-haul destinations, as most airlines would rather take passengers to onward destinations such as Europe and America.
24/06/12 Ruchika Chitravanshi & Mihir Mishra/Business Standard

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Categories: airports Jun 2012, Foreign Jun 2012