New Delhi: In a bizarre revelation, in this age of speed, flyers in India are spending more time juggling between airports! The issue of airlines inflating flight durations is a major area of concern in consumer dissatisfaction as it takes them longer and longer to fly from their source to the destination. Airlines are taking more time to reach their destination despite advanced technology efficiency due to the increasing pressure of ensuring as high an on-time performance score (OTP) as possible.
As per The Indian Express, the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Transport, Tourism and Culture, in its report tabled in Parliament earlier this month on issues related to improving consumers’ satisfaction of airlines pointed out the “erroneous” practice of “non-uniform block time” being followed by certain airlines and recommended all the carriers to adhere to uniform block times.
Block time is the duration taken by an aircraft to taxi-out to the runway of its origin airport, actual flying time, and the time taken to taxi to the arrival gate of its destination airport.
“The Committee notes that due to ‘non-uniform block time’, the passengers often have to spend more time on board the aircraft. The practice of ‘non-uniform block time’ is obviously not desirable. The Committee, therefore, recommends that all the airlines may follow uniform block time. The Committee also recommends that a coordinated effort should be made by Air Traffic Control, Airports Authority of India, Airport operators and Airlines for maintaining punctuality in air services,” the Parliamentary Standing Committee said in its report.
An Airports Authority of India official was quoted as saying by IE that some airlines followed the practice of announcing longer block times and turned up before time, effectively portraying that they are arriving before time. But, this has an adverse effect on other aircraft that are scheduled to land on a particular time slot. Following this, the ATC was directed to only allow aircraft to land as per landing slot time cleared prior to the flight. What all this translates to, is that the flights are logged as being very much on time, yet the fact remains that the flyers have been delayed inordinately!
17/01/18 Financial Express
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As per The Indian Express, the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Transport, Tourism and Culture, in its report tabled in Parliament earlier this month on issues related to improving consumers’ satisfaction of airlines pointed out the “erroneous” practice of “non-uniform block time” being followed by certain airlines and recommended all the carriers to adhere to uniform block times.
Block time is the duration taken by an aircraft to taxi-out to the runway of its origin airport, actual flying time, and the time taken to taxi to the arrival gate of its destination airport.
“The Committee notes that due to ‘non-uniform block time’, the passengers often have to spend more time on board the aircraft. The practice of ‘non-uniform block time’ is obviously not desirable. The Committee, therefore, recommends that all the airlines may follow uniform block time. The Committee also recommends that a coordinated effort should be made by Air Traffic Control, Airports Authority of India, Airport operators and Airlines for maintaining punctuality in air services,” the Parliamentary Standing Committee said in its report.
An Airports Authority of India official was quoted as saying by IE that some airlines followed the practice of announcing longer block times and turned up before time, effectively portraying that they are arriving before time. But, this has an adverse effect on other aircraft that are scheduled to land on a particular time slot. Following this, the ATC was directed to only allow aircraft to land as per landing slot time cleared prior to the flight. What all this translates to, is that the flights are logged as being very much on time, yet the fact remains that the flyers have been delayed inordinately!
17/01/18 Financial Express
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