Mumbai : Even as country’s domestic carriers have in recent times
engaged themselves in airfare war to woo the passengers, a quick check
on latest statistics shared by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation
(DGCA) reveals incidents causing distress for fliers are going
northwards.
While air tickets in regional and even national sectors are available at as low as Rs 990/- inclusive of all the applicable taxes and full-service airline like Vistara has now started offering free ticket with each ticket booked, over 8000 passengers were ‘affected’ in June this year due to their flights’ cancelled. Over 47,000 domestic passengers had bore the brunt of their scheduled aircrafts being delayed beyond two hours during June, 2015. And no prize for the right answer, national-carrier Air India tops the list of domestic carriers which distressed their fliers by cancelling flights or AI flights being delayed beyond two hours.
As many as 3734 fliers were affected in June when AI cancelled its several flights and Jet Airways and Jet Lite flights’ cancellations affected 2095 passengers during the same period.
Cancellation of Spicejet flights directly hit 1470 passengers while new-entrant Vistara’s flights cancellations affected only 53 fliers even as it has been operating in only few select routes.
“While AI had to cough up Rs 18.76 lakh to passengers as compensation due to cancellation of flights during June, Jet to compensate Rs 3.07 lakh and Air Asia had to pay compensations worth Rs 6.01 lakh to its passengers. Interestingly, Indigo does not have any such record of cancellation causing harassment to passengers,” said a source in DGCA in the national capital.
Read news in full 13/08/15 Joydeep R Ray/Free Press Journal
While air tickets in regional and even national sectors are available at as low as Rs 990/- inclusive of all the applicable taxes and full-service airline like Vistara has now started offering free ticket with each ticket booked, over 8000 passengers were ‘affected’ in June this year due to their flights’ cancelled. Over 47,000 domestic passengers had bore the brunt of their scheduled aircrafts being delayed beyond two hours during June, 2015. And no prize for the right answer, national-carrier Air India tops the list of domestic carriers which distressed their fliers by cancelling flights or AI flights being delayed beyond two hours.
As many as 3734 fliers were affected in June when AI cancelled its several flights and Jet Airways and Jet Lite flights’ cancellations affected 2095 passengers during the same period.
Cancellation of Spicejet flights directly hit 1470 passengers while new-entrant Vistara’s flights cancellations affected only 53 fliers even as it has been operating in only few select routes.
“While AI had to cough up Rs 18.76 lakh to passengers as compensation due to cancellation of flights during June, Jet to compensate Rs 3.07 lakh and Air Asia had to pay compensations worth Rs 6.01 lakh to its passengers. Interestingly, Indigo does not have any such record of cancellation causing harassment to passengers,” said a source in DGCA in the national capital.
Read news in full 13/08/15 Joydeep R Ray/Free Press Journal
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