New Delhi: The civil aviation ministry is likely to form a working committee to find new ways to reallocate Jet Airways’ overseas flying rights in the wake of IndiGo and GoAir complaining about the procedure followed last time, industry insiders said.
“The ministry has assured us that they will put a working committee together and again discuss inputs from all parties involved to understand what’s the best way (to allocate foreign flying rights) going forward,” Samir Patel, vice-president (network planning) at GoAir, told ET.
The ministry had last month allocated Jet Airways’ bilateral flying rights to other Indian airlines for three months ending September. IndiGo and Spice-Jet had got the maximum number of rights at 84 and 77 weekly flights, respectively. But the ministry did not follow the rules prescribed in Aeronautical Information Circular (AIC) which says the allocation should be in proportion to domestic capacity. Instead, airline representatives were asked to pick a chit and were given preference according to the number they got as well as their fleet induction plans.
IndiGo, which flew 49% of all domestic air travellers in May, had contended that it should have got more rights in line with its share in the domestic market, people familiar with the development said.
GoAir — which has been allocated 28 domestic flights per week from Jet’s share besides international rights to fly to Bangkok, Dubai and Kuwait — too, had written to the Prime Minister’s Office protesting about the model followed to allocate Jet’s overseas rights, ET had reported on June 21.
18/07/19 Economic Times
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“The ministry has assured us that they will put a working committee together and again discuss inputs from all parties involved to understand what’s the best way (to allocate foreign flying rights) going forward,” Samir Patel, vice-president (network planning) at GoAir, told ET.
The ministry had last month allocated Jet Airways’ bilateral flying rights to other Indian airlines for three months ending September. IndiGo and Spice-Jet had got the maximum number of rights at 84 and 77 weekly flights, respectively. But the ministry did not follow the rules prescribed in Aeronautical Information Circular (AIC) which says the allocation should be in proportion to domestic capacity. Instead, airline representatives were asked to pick a chit and were given preference according to the number they got as well as their fleet induction plans.
IndiGo, which flew 49% of all domestic air travellers in May, had contended that it should have got more rights in line with its share in the domestic market, people familiar with the development said.
GoAir — which has been allocated 28 domestic flights per week from Jet’s share besides international rights to fly to Bangkok, Dubai and Kuwait — too, had written to the Prime Minister’s Office protesting about the model followed to allocate Jet’s overseas rights, ET had reported on June 21.
18/07/19 Economic Times
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