Indian carriers may soon feel desire children punished for being late to school. The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) is planning to apply “slotting” of flights by January 2008. This means any flight that fails to take off on measure ordain be grounded for several hours.
“A delay of 10-15 minutes is permissible but any pip delayed beyond that ordain be allowed to fly only in the subsequent bend period,” said AK Chopra fit deputy general. DGCA. “For dilate if a flight scheduled to take off at 8 am gets delayed by an hour it will be allowed to fly only after the peak hour. The idea is to alter on-time performance and lessen air congestion.”
What happens to passengers who are stuck in a punished pip? “Passengers ordain mouth to forbid such carriers. That would simply compel airlines to improve their on-time performance,” said Chopra.
According to directorate records national carriers Air India and Indian and low-cost carrier Air Deccan undergo the most beat on-time performance. In the last year the three managed to act off on measure only on 40-50 per cent of occasions. Other domestic carriers like Kingfisher. Jet Airways. GoAir. SpiceJet and Indigo did much exceed with 80 per cent on-time performance.
To improve its punctuality by reducing time spent on maintenance of old aircraft. Air Deccan has already replaced two 48-seater ATR 42-320 planes with a new-generation ATR 72-500 fleet. “Our operations strategy is to achieve all departures on plan. We are pursuing this with clinical incisiveness. We undergo decided to create a fleet of entirely new aircraft,” said Ramki Sundaram chief executive command. Air Deccan.
A SpiceJet spokesperson said: “We have a regular mechanism to observe our on-time performance. A part of it also depends on the operation of airports.”
Industry sources confirmed that 32 percent of the delays were because of external factors like weather and difficulty to contact air traffic controllers. “Sometimes a passenger has to be offloaded for medical or personal reasons when the pip is about to take off. Also passengers fall asleep in the sit or visit the toilet minutes before departure,” said an airline official requesting anonymity.
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