Mumbai/New Delhi: Close on the heels of India allowing Emirates to fly jumbo jet A380 in the revised bilateral air services agreement (ASA) inked with Dubai on Wednesday, the Ministry of Civil Aviation is set to reworkits arrangements with Singapore and Germany. While seat entitlements to Singapore will not be increased immediately, the government plans to amend the agreement which specifically barred Singapore Airlines from operating A380 to India.
In case of Germany - where bilateral traffic entitlementshave been made on the basis of the number of flights permitted per week – the ASAwill be revised and expressed in terms of the numbers of seats available every week, before permitting Lufthansa to fly A380s to India.A senior official at the ministry said, “Singapore Airlineshas made representation to operate A380s to India.
We will not increase seatentitlements to Singapore at the moment but we will revise the agreement because it specifically bars Singapore Airlines from flying in A380s to India.In case of Germany, the bilateral rights would have to be reworked andexpressed in terms of seats available per week.
Read news in full 27/02/14 Sharmistha Mukherjee & Aneesh Phadnis/Business Standard
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