Mumbai: Flight diversion numbers put out by the Airports Authority of India's (AAI) Air Traffic Controller (ATC) reveal that diversions at the Delhi airport in the current fog season were lowest in three years at 50.
Diversions have more than halved from 143 in 2013; there were 89 diversions in 2012 and 57 in 2011.
Among the airlines, budget carrier SpiceJet registered the lowest diversions at 2, followed by GoAir at 6, Jet Airways at 7, IndiGo at 14 and Air India at 21.
In terms of the rate of diversion of each airline too, SpiceJet, which had 31 Delhi flights, was the lowest at 6.45%, followed by Jet, with 90 flights from Delhi, at 7.77%. IndiGo which has the highest number of Delhi flights at 102 had the third lowest diversion rate of 13.72%, followed by GoAir with 27 Delhi flights at 22.22%. Air India with 94 Delhi flights had the highest rate of diversion at 22.34%.
The diversion number of the current year at the Delhi airport shows that the trend was reversing. It had been rising over the last three years due to haphazard flight and crew planning, inaccurate weather forecast and ill-equipped airport and aircraft. This had made the airport regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) take stern measures to improve the situation to make Delhi airport zero diversional.
23/02/15 Praveena Sharma/Daily News & Analysis
Diversions have more than halved from 143 in 2013; there were 89 diversions in 2012 and 57 in 2011.
Among the airlines, budget carrier SpiceJet registered the lowest diversions at 2, followed by GoAir at 6, Jet Airways at 7, IndiGo at 14 and Air India at 21.
In terms of the rate of diversion of each airline too, SpiceJet, which had 31 Delhi flights, was the lowest at 6.45%, followed by Jet, with 90 flights from Delhi, at 7.77%. IndiGo which has the highest number of Delhi flights at 102 had the third lowest diversion rate of 13.72%, followed by GoAir with 27 Delhi flights at 22.22%. Air India with 94 Delhi flights had the highest rate of diversion at 22.34%.
The diversion number of the current year at the Delhi airport shows that the trend was reversing. It had been rising over the last three years due to haphazard flight and crew planning, inaccurate weather forecast and ill-equipped airport and aircraft. This had made the airport regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) take stern measures to improve the situation to make Delhi airport zero diversional.
23/02/15 Praveena Sharma/Daily News & Analysis
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