Airlines Summer Schedule: There has been a boom in the aviation sector in the country. The Aviation Ministry has introduced summer schedules today. The summer program runs from March 31 to October 26. The ministry said that this year 24275 weekly domestic flights will be operated in the summer programme. The ministry said that the number of airports in the country has also increased this year.
New Delhi. The Aviation Ministry has presented its summer schedules. According to this schedule, 24,275 weekly domestic flights will be operated this year. This means that 6 percent more flights will be operated as compared to last year.
This year the number of airports in the country has also increased. In the summer season, flights will be operated from about 125 airports. Some of these new airports (like Azamgarh, Aligarh, Chitrakot, Gondia, Jalgaon, Moradabad and Pithoragarh) are also included.
Indigo, Air India and Vistara will also operate more flights this summer but SpiceJet will operate less flights. Let us tell you that the summer program will run from 31 March to 26 October 2024.
Indigo is the country’s largest domestic airline. IndiGo will also operate 13,781 flights every week this summer. This figure of Indigo is 13.82 percent more than last year.
Whereas Spicejet will operate 26 percent less flights as compared to last year.
Vistara will operate weekly domestic flights by 25.22 per cent to 2,324, while Akasa Air will increase its weekly domestic flights by 14.30 per cent to 903.
International flight
IndiGo will operate 731 international flights this summer. This is 13 percent more than last year’s summer. SpiceJet will operate 12.6 percent less international flights this year compared to last year.
Air India will operate 455 weekly international flights, an increase of 5.1 per cent compared to the year-ago period. Air India, Air India Express and Vistara are part of the Tata Group and Vistara is in the process of merging with Air India.
Vistara will increase its weekly foreign flights by 50.8 percent to 184. Air India Express flights will increase by 20.8 percent to 371 flights.
Go First was to operate 120 weekly overseas flights. All Go First flights have been stopped from May 2023.
In the summer programme, Indian flights will be operated from 27 international airports. Apart from this, the Indian airline will connect 37 countries including America, Britain, Uzbekistan, Maldives, Georgia and Azerbaijan.
India’s civil aviation market is one of the fastest growing in the world, but supply chain and engine problems have led to the grounding of many aircraft.
