Aurangabad: The grounding of flights and the uncertainty over whether Jet Airways will operate to and fro flights has taken a hit at the tourism and
corporate sectors in the city.
Jet Airways has stopped its morning flight from the city to Mumbai from March 20. Director of Aurangabad airport D G Salve said that they have received a communication from the airline stating that they would not operate the morning flight until March 31 and the evening flight till April 31. “We have not received any communication as to when the airline will resume these flights,” said Salve.
With each plane having a capacity of 126 passengers, daily passenger inflow of 250 has been hit. Salve said that apart from impacting the local business and causing inconvenience to passengers, the grounding of flights was taking a toll on the revenue of Airport Authority of India in terms of passenger fee and other services. Stakeholders in the tourism sector, like travel agents and hotels, claim that though their businesses have been hit, they were not incurring heavy losses as it was an off-season for tourists.
President of Aurangabad Tourism Promotors Guild Jaswant Singh said that the travel agents had a meeting with local authorities of Jet Airways where they were assured that the morning flight would be resumed from April 1. “Uncertainity is preventing travel agents from booking tickets available from April 1. Passengers, whose flights were cancelled, had to be accomodated in Air India, through road and railways. The high fare of Air India has pushed people to ask for compensation. The compensation in European countries is quite high,” said Singh.
25/03/19 Arpita Sharad/Times of India
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Jet Airways has stopped its morning flight from the city to Mumbai from March 20. Director of Aurangabad airport D G Salve said that they have received a communication from the airline stating that they would not operate the morning flight until March 31 and the evening flight till April 31. “We have not received any communication as to when the airline will resume these flights,” said Salve.
With each plane having a capacity of 126 passengers, daily passenger inflow of 250 has been hit. Salve said that apart from impacting the local business and causing inconvenience to passengers, the grounding of flights was taking a toll on the revenue of Airport Authority of India in terms of passenger fee and other services. Stakeholders in the tourism sector, like travel agents and hotels, claim that though their businesses have been hit, they were not incurring heavy losses as it was an off-season for tourists.
President of Aurangabad Tourism Promotors Guild Jaswant Singh said that the travel agents had a meeting with local authorities of Jet Airways where they were assured that the morning flight would be resumed from April 1. “Uncertainity is preventing travel agents from booking tickets available from April 1. Passengers, whose flights were cancelled, had to be accomodated in Air India, through road and railways. The high fare of Air India has pushed people to ask for compensation. The compensation in European countries is quite high,” said Singh.
25/03/19 Arpita Sharad/Times of India
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