Alliance Air, a subsidiary of Indian Airlines is to leave the North East air space in a few months. The plan is to have 592 internal flights with separate hubs at Guwahati and Agartala as against 226 flights per week now. However, the report does not have details of who is coming in. It’s only says “regional airways”
NEC pays Alliance Air Rs 35 crore annually to operate the regional air service. I read somewhere in the past that Capt. Gopinath of Air Deccan offered he could do it cheaper. I wonder if NEC will entertain him.
NEW DELHI, May 24 – Decks have been cleared for exit of Alliance Air from the North-east, with the Centre all set to endorse the proposal for a new regional airways. The proposal for an exclusive airways to serve the North-east was given the go ahead at the recent sectoral meeting at Aizawl, disclosed Minister, Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER), Mani Shankar Aiyar.
The persistent refusal of the Airline to shift its hub of operations from Kolkata to Guwahati, as initially proposed left the Centre in a tight spot and open to attacks by the MPs.
Read the news here (Assam Tribune).
Meanwhile low cost airlines such are Air Deccan, Go Air, Spice jet etc.. have come under the scanner of Director General of Investigation and Registration (DGIR) for their unfair cancellation policies.
NEW DELHI: Cracking the whip on airlines that bait customers with low fares but retain the amount in case of cancellations, the country’s anti-monopoly watchdog has issued notices to six carriers, including state-run Indian.
Read here (Economic Times)
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May 25th, 2007 at 1:56 pm
interesting.. thlawhna man pawh a tlawm in a awm tam deuh beisei ngawt ila.. Private airlines chu indian airlines ai chuan an tlawm tawh zawk bawka..
mahse Private pawh disadvantage na tam ve tho ang chu..pilot in thlawh duhloh te an nei em nang.
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