New Delhi: Call it the lingering Jet effect. With this big airline shut, the coming winter season will see only a marginal 1% increase in domestic connectivity compared to last winter - from 23,117 weekly domestic flights in 2018-19 to 23,403 this winter schedule that will be effective from October-end to March-end. Last winter (2018-19) had seen 22% more domestic flights than previous winter of 2017-18.
While Jet's closure has impacted growth, airlines that took ex-Jet planes - SpiceJet and Vistara - and others have increased flights to ensure a recovery from that big collapse. With ex-Jet planes in their fleets, these two have added maximum domestic flights (percentage-wise) this winter.
"The schedule has been approved with existing fleet. We will add more flights as airlines induct more planes during the winter. Due to Jet's collapse (this April), about 3,600 domestic departures per week have gone out of the system. Prompt steps by the government helped fill that void. If we do not count Jet, other airlines have added almost 20% weekly flights," said a senior Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) official.
Vistara, which took 9 ex-Jet B737s, currently has 32 aircraft in its fleet. This number will cross 40 before the end of the calendar year. Vistara has got a schedule approved for 1,376 weekly domestic flights this winter - up 64.2% from 838 last winter. The Tata-Singapore Airlines' will also start filling in Jet's wide-body gap as it is likely to start getting Boeing 787 Dreamliners this year itself for use on medium haul routes like London.
The second biggest jump in domestic flights this winter is by SpiceJet, which took 31 ex-Jet B737s and currently has a fleet of 113 single aisles. The low cost carrier (LCC) will operate 4,316 weekly domestic flights this winter - up 46% from 2,957 last winter. SpiceJet's future expansion depends on when B737 Max return to service.
The third biggest jump is by AirAsia India which will operate 32% more flights this winter, up from 1,109 weekly flights last time to 1,345 now. This airline has 23 Airbus A320s and will add nine more by March 2020.
19/10/19 Sauabh Sinha/Times of India
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While Jet's closure has impacted growth, airlines that took ex-Jet planes - SpiceJet and Vistara - and others have increased flights to ensure a recovery from that big collapse. With ex-Jet planes in their fleets, these two have added maximum domestic flights (percentage-wise) this winter.
"The schedule has been approved with existing fleet. We will add more flights as airlines induct more planes during the winter. Due to Jet's collapse (this April), about 3,600 domestic departures per week have gone out of the system. Prompt steps by the government helped fill that void. If we do not count Jet, other airlines have added almost 20% weekly flights," said a senior Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) official.
Vistara, which took 9 ex-Jet B737s, currently has 32 aircraft in its fleet. This number will cross 40 before the end of the calendar year. Vistara has got a schedule approved for 1,376 weekly domestic flights this winter - up 64.2% from 838 last winter. The Tata-Singapore Airlines' will also start filling in Jet's wide-body gap as it is likely to start getting Boeing 787 Dreamliners this year itself for use on medium haul routes like London.
The second biggest jump in domestic flights this winter is by SpiceJet, which took 31 ex-Jet B737s and currently has a fleet of 113 single aisles. The low cost carrier (LCC) will operate 4,316 weekly domestic flights this winter - up 46% from 2,957 last winter. SpiceJet's future expansion depends on when B737 Max return to service.
The third biggest jump is by AirAsia India which will operate 32% more flights this winter, up from 1,109 weekly flights last time to 1,345 now. This airline has 23 Airbus A320s and will add nine more by March 2020.
19/10/19 Sauabh Sinha/Times of India
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