Jet Airways, India’s largest carrier in terms of passenger volume, has observed a specific method to resolve congestion at some of the major airports inside the country.
The airline is seeking at operating wide entire body airplanes in some of the congested domestic routes inside the summer schedule. “From the summer schedule, we is going to be operating wide bodied Airbus A330s in a few of our flights to and from Delhi, Mumbai and Chennai as the congestion at airports limit the range of flights we can operate,” stated a senior Jet Executive, requesting anonymity.
The airline operates single-aisle Boeing 737s or Airbus A320s with close to 160 seats per aircraft for domestic routes. The wide-bodied aircraft will provide close to 230 seats per aircraft, allowing the airline to have a lot more ability with much less range of flights.
“Initially, we plan to take close to 2 A330s either on lease or on sale and operate close to 20 flights,” the executive said. The Naresh Goyal-owned Jet Airways operates more than 400 flights daily to 67 destinations worldwide.
Infrastructure constraints because of upgrade jobs at Mumbai and Chennai airports have drastically brought down the ability of these airports and has forced airlines to drastically cut down the range of flights. Mumbai airport has been the worst hit from the main runway closed for eight hours every day from Monday to Saturday. With domestic travel growing in double digits post-slowdown, airlines wanted 573 daily slots inside the airport, but has managed only 490.
In mid-November, the Delhi-Mumbai sector saw a 200-300 per cent start in fares, attributed to many factors, including a lot more demand chasing much less capacity.
Meanwhile, Jet Airways has rolled back the salary cut of its more than 10,000 employees from January. The airline had done a partial rollback from the pay cuts in July last year.
Source: Business Standard
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