New Delhi: The government today said it could not have intervened in the sale of landing slots by Jet Airways in London’s Heathrow airport to Etihad Airways or reallocated the same to state-run Air India.
“There is a confusion that trading of slots at Heathrow and allotment of international traffic rights to Indian carriers by the civil aviation ministry are the same thing,” the civil aviation ministry said in a statement, adding the “government or any other civil aviation institution in India has no role to play” in the trading of slots.
Jet Airways has transferred three Heathrow slots to Etihad Airways for £42.6 million or Rs 423 crore.
According to the government, slot trading is an issue between the Airport Coordination Ltd, Heathrow (which allots the slots) and the concerned airlines.
23/07/13 Telegraph
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“There is a confusion that trading of slots at Heathrow and allotment of international traffic rights to Indian carriers by the civil aviation ministry are the same thing,” the civil aviation ministry said in a statement, adding the “government or any other civil aviation institution in India has no role to play” in the trading of slots.
Jet Airways has transferred three Heathrow slots to Etihad Airways for £42.6 million or Rs 423 crore.
According to the government, slot trading is an issue between the Airport Coordination Ltd, Heathrow (which allots the slots) and the concerned airlines.
23/07/13 Telegraph
