Winter seats release by GOI
Aug 12, 2012 | 9:11 am
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Winter seats release by GOI
I recall that in the past GOI used to release seats to airlines[allow them to fly biggerplanes/more flights] to help relieve the seat crunch.
Does anyone know if that is likely to happen and if so when?
Does anyone know if that is likely to happen and if so when?
Aug 13, 2012 | 3:39 am
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You mean relax the bilateral agreements to allow more frequencies and larger aircraft? Highly unlikely. The India-US traffic is an open bilateral, so no more restrictions. EK & co already have massive capacity into India, no need there, and the Europeans will stay restricted so AI can benefit from selling rights they have to the other operating carrier or in order to limit access to the indian market.
Details of the current bilaterals are here: http://dgca.nic.in/bilateral/Bilateral.pdf
Details of the current bilaterals are here: http://dgca.nic.in/bilateral/Bilateral.pdf
Aug 13, 2012 | 5:32 am
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Details of the current bilaterals are here: http://dgca.nic.in/bilateral/Bilateral.pdf
Aug 13, 2012 | 10:59 am
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You mean relax the bilateral agreements to allow more frequencies and larger aircraft? Highly unlikely. The India-US traffic is an open bilateral, so no more restrictions. EK & co already have massive capacity into India, no need there, and the Europeans will stay restricted so AI can benefit from selling rights they have to the other operating carrier or in order to limit access to the indian market.
Details of the current bilaterals are here: http://dgca.nic.in/bilateral/Bilateral.pdf
Details of the current bilaterals are here: http://dgca.nic.in/bilateral/Bilateral.pdf
That's a good link. I use This one as I can go straight to the agreement I want to look at, instead of having to to scroll down.
Aug 13, 2012 | 11:30 am
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Not sure what you're talking about really...
Airlines do sometimes upgauge during peak seasons, but GoI doesn't have much to do with that decision...
Airlines do sometimes upgauge during peak seasons, but GoI doesn't have much to do with that decision...
Aug 13, 2012 | 11:35 am
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Upguaging is limited by bilateral, 'ee. you can't exceed the capacity laid down in the bilateral..