New Delhi/Mumbai: After allowing Emirates to fly the Airbus A380 superjumbo jet under the revised bilateral air services agreement inked with Dubai (United Arab Emirates or UAE) on Wednesday, the civil aviation ministry is set to rework arrangements with Singapore and Germany.
According to a ministry senior, while the number of seats entitled to Singapore would not be increased immediately, the agreement currently barring Singapore Airlines from operating the jet in India could be amended. The person said for Germany, with which bilateral traffic entitlements are based on the number of flights allowed in a week, the agreement will be revised to express the numbers of seats available weekly, before allowing Lufthansa to fly A380s to India.
India’s memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Singapore last year cut number of seats a week in each direction for both countries, with a cap for Singapore on each route. It also increased capacity entitlement by a tenth — India is allowed 29,400 weekly seats and Singapore 28,700.
01/03/14 Sharmistha Mukherjee & Aneesh Phadnis/Business Standard
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According to a ministry senior, while the number of seats entitled to Singapore would not be increased immediately, the agreement currently barring Singapore Airlines from operating the jet in India could be amended. The person said for Germany, with which bilateral traffic entitlements are based on the number of flights allowed in a week, the agreement will be revised to express the numbers of seats available weekly, before allowing Lufthansa to fly A380s to India.
India’s memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Singapore last year cut number of seats a week in each direction for both countries, with a cap for Singapore on each route. It also increased capacity entitlement by a tenth — India is allowed 29,400 weekly seats and Singapore 28,700.
01/03/14 Sharmistha Mukherjee & Aneesh Phadnis/Business Standard
