New Delhi: Full-service carrier Vistara, a joint venture between the
Tata Group and Singapore Airlines, said that changes in rules by the
aviation regulator with regards to the final approval process for new
airlines is leading to delays in starting its commercial operations. The
airline is likely to start flying only from around January next year,
four months behind the original plan for a launch in September 2014.
“There is an approval process that every new airline needs to go through and we are also following the same process. It is however taking a little longer time than we anticipated. As a team we are quite focused and concentrating all our energies towards operational readiness,” Vistara said in a response to an email query. “There have been some new developments with respect to Directorate-General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) guidelines and we are working to swiftly comply with the same,” the company added.
Vistara, a full-service carrier which applied for the air operators’ permit (AOP) to the DGCA in April right after receiving a no-objection certificate from the civil aviation ministry the same month, already has two Airbus A320 aircraft parked at the New Delhi airport. The AOP is the final leg before any new airline can start commercial operations.
Read news in full 29/10/14 Roudra Bhattacharya/Financial Express
“There is an approval process that every new airline needs to go through and we are also following the same process. It is however taking a little longer time than we anticipated. As a team we are quite focused and concentrating all our energies towards operational readiness,” Vistara said in a response to an email query. “There have been some new developments with respect to Directorate-General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) guidelines and we are working to swiftly comply with the same,” the company added.
Vistara, a full-service carrier which applied for the air operators’ permit (AOP) to the DGCA in April right after receiving a no-objection certificate from the civil aviation ministry the same month, already has two Airbus A320 aircraft parked at the New Delhi airport. The AOP is the final leg before any new airline can start commercial operations.
Read news in full 29/10/14 Roudra Bhattacharya/Financial Express
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