There is a mini battle being waged at the Ministry of Civil Aviation. No, it is no more about saving cash strapped SpiceJet, ministry officials have now trained their guns on state-owned Air India instead. The battle to have AI flights stick to scheduled timings has been launched and the target is to get at least 85% of AI flights to take off and land on time by next month. For the last two months, AI has been surpassing its own dismal on-time performance (OTP) record by reporting only about 60% flights on time.
A senior official told Firstpost the ministry has begun daily monitoring of Air India's on-time performance (OTP). "We can't have 40% of Air India flights delayed or cancelled. This must stop. We are now monitoring OTP daily. An Integrated Operations Control Centre has been made active at Delhi airport for monitoring OTP. The airline and respective airports have to explain each flight delay and the airport also has to tell us action taken by it prevent delays," this official said.
He said that Air India has been told to achieve at least 85% OTP within a month though as per the turnaround plan, the OTP should be above 90%. This official also said that crew shortfall is being urgently addressed and 350 cabin crew members have been already recruited. Cabin crew members of Air India have been pointing out that there is a shortage of anywhere between 600 and 800 crew and this is largely the reason for flight delays.
03/02/15 Sindhu Bhattacharya/Business Standard
A senior official told Firstpost the ministry has begun daily monitoring of Air India's on-time performance (OTP). "We can't have 40% of Air India flights delayed or cancelled. This must stop. We are now monitoring OTP daily. An Integrated Operations Control Centre has been made active at Delhi airport for monitoring OTP. The airline and respective airports have to explain each flight delay and the airport also has to tell us action taken by it prevent delays," this official said.
He said that Air India has been told to achieve at least 85% OTP within a month though as per the turnaround plan, the OTP should be above 90%. This official also said that crew shortfall is being urgently addressed and 350 cabin crew members have been already recruited. Cabin crew members of Air India have been pointing out that there is a shortage of anywhere between 600 and 800 crew and this is largely the reason for flight delays.
03/02/15 Sindhu Bhattacharya/Business Standard
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