Friday, March 27, 2015

Vistara flight cancellation rate highest in February

New Delhi: The newly-launched Tata-SIA joint venture carrier Vistara cancelled more flights than any other domestic carrier in February, says DGCA data.
The third full service carrier after national airline Air India and Jet Airways, Vistara also operated over 40 per cent seats vacant in its aircraft during a period in which some of the other airlines reported a seat factor as high as 89.7 per cent.
As per the data released by the directorate general of civil aviation on Friday, Vistara cancelled 2.28 per cent of its total number of flights during the reporting month as against an industry average of 0.6 per cent.
The airline was closely followed by Jet Airways subsidiary JetLite, whose cancellation rate was 1.86 per cent while AirAsia India, the domestic arm of the Malaysian carrier, cancelled 1.50 per cent of its total flights during the month.
No-frills carrier IndiGo had the lowest cancellation rate of only 0.15 per cent.
27/03/15 PTI/Economic Times
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