[New Delhi]Govt’s 2nd No In Two Days This Time For Replacement Of Opaque DGCA
Central Govt Has Shelved Its Another Proposal for Civil Aviation Authority
Union Minister Ashok Gajapathi Raju today said that he saw no need to merely rename the regulator.
The UPA government had proposed to replace Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) with Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) having full functional and financial autonomy to give the regulator more teeth.
But the Civil Aviation Minister said.”What is the need for CAA? What purpose will be served by just changing the name? I do not see any reason (to replace DGCA),”
Raju, however, admitted there is “opaqueness” in working of DGCA and promised to usher in transparency in the body in the interest of passenger safety and security.
The Minister said an ambitious plan is being worked out to make the DGCA a more “responsive” and “meaningful” body, which had faced a downgrade on safety grounds during the UPA regime.
The DGCA is expected to make completely online 18 major services including granting of licence to pilots, approval of safety procedures and engineering and flight operations this month as part of its e-GCA (e-Governance in Civil Aviation) project.
His comments come,Through PTI, at a time when there are increasing threats to aviation security worldwide, particularly after the terror attack on Brussels airport in March.
Yesterday Raju Ruled Out any Formulation For Capping Of Airfare
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Govt’s 2nd Big NO In Just 2 Days,Today’s ‘NO’ For Opaque DGCA
Indigo Airline[IGA]Shares Trailing Behind Today’s Offer Price
[Mumbai] Profit Booking Indigo Airline[IGA]Shares Trailing Behind Today’s Offer Price
No Frill Indigo airline[Interglobe Aviation] shares ,Today,Downed
This Down Fall May Be Due To Centre’s Policy Of Capping Ticket Cost
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Domestic Carriers Ferried 74.76 Lakhs Fliers In Feb -Less Then Jan
[New Delhi] Domestic Carriers Ferried 74.76 Lakhs Fliers In Feb Which Are Less Then Jan
But More Then Last Year .Domestic Carriers Ferried 74.76 Lakh Fliers in Feb
Total Air passenger Traffic Jumps 24% in Feb
Marking a growth of over 24 per cent in passengers number, domestic airlines flew 74.76 lakh people in February with majority of the carriers recording over 80 per cent seat occupancy.
In February last year, the carriers had ferried 60.16 lakh passengers.
Latest data compiled by aviation regulator DGCA showed that no-frills carrier IndiGo’s market share stood at 36.8 per cent in February while that of Jet Airways was 18.4 per cent.
Overall, the carriers ferried 74.76 lakh passengers, an increase of 24.27 per cent compared to the year-ago period,
The load factor — an indicator of seat occupancy — of majority of the carriers, including IndiGo and SpiceJet, was more than 80 per cent,
Last month, the market share of
Air India stood at 15.4 per cent, followed by
SpiceJet (13.1 per cent),
GoAir (8 per cent),
JetLite (2.8 per cent),
AirAsia (2.2 per cent),
Vistara (2 per cent) and
Air Costa (0.8 per cent). The market share of
Air Pegasus and Trujet was at 0.3 per cent each,
In January, local carriers had flown 76.55 lakh people.
According to the official, a total of 151.31 lakh passengers were ferried by airlines during January-February.
This represents an increase of over 23 per cent compared with 122.61 lakh passengers seen a year ago.
Govt Can Facilitate But Can’t Force Carriers To Fly To Unconnected Cities
[New Delhi]Govt Can’t Push Pvt ALs & Unwilling To Force Its Carrier For Unconnected Cities
Government today said that Its Carrier is coming out from losses so, will not “force” Air India to fly to unconnected cities
Civil Aviation Minister Ashok Gajapathi Raju said Air India is coming out of losses because of the government’s “non-interference” policy and maintained that its job was to “facilitate and not compel” airline operations.
Raju made the remarks during Question Hour after a number of members raised the issue of lack of air connectivity to the regions they came from and Rajiv Satav (Cong) urged him to ask Air India to connect places like Nanded, a pilgrimage centre of the Sikhs.
Raju, however, said the government from time to time gave suggestions to airlines and noted that in the draft civil aviation policy there is a proposal to connect unserved and unconnected airports under the Regional Connectivity Scheme.
“The details of the scheme including the action plan are being finalised… An indicative cost of Rs 50-100 crore has been envisaged in the budget speech for 2016-1017,”
He said in a written reply.”The commencement of activity in these unconnected, unserved airports and airstrips depends on the willingness of the airlines and of the state governments to agree to the conditions of the scheme,”
Anonymous Threat Call Held IGI Airport In Tizzy :Security Tightened
[New Delhi] Anonymous Threat Call Held IGI Airport In Tizzy:Security Tightened
Call centre at the Indira Gandhi International Airport received an anonymous call about the presence of a “terrorist”.
The call was later declared as “non-specific” by the Bomb Threat Assessment Committee (BTAC),
“At around 2.30 AM the call centre of the Indira Gandhi International Airport received an anonymous call saying that someone from Amritsar present at the airport was a terrorist.
As Per Sources,.The BTAC was formed to assess the threat, they said, adding, security agencies carried out an extensive screening of the people at the airport.
The BTAC declared the call as “non-specific” at around 3.30 AM,
Govt To Restrict Landing For Overseas Airlines
[New Delhi]Govt To Restrict Landing For Overseas Airlines .
Foreign Carriers May Not Get Landing Rights on Demand In India
Signalling a major shift in granting air traffic rights, the government is looking at restricting the number of landing points for overseas airlines irrespective of their seat entitlements.
The thinking on these lines comes against the backdrop of Gulf carriers cornering a large chunk of international air traffic from India because of having landing rights across a number of airports in the country.
A senior Civil Aviation Ministry official said it was looking at restricting the ports of call given to foreign airlines under bilaterals while remaining flexible on seat entitlements.
Some foreign carriers pitch for more landing points as well as higher number of seats but at times allowing such requests could hurt domestic carriers,
As per sources Govt is planing to create a balance between the interests of passengers and the interests of Indian carriers,” At present, the balance seems to be tilted towards overseas airlines.
.A firm decision on restricting the landing points for overseas airlines is yet to be taken,
MIAL Desires To Levy&Collect Development Fee at Mumbai Airport@Rs 518Cr
[New Delhi]MIAL Desires To Levy&Collect Development Fee at Mumbai Airport@Rs 518Cr
Mumbai International Airport Private Limited has approached tariff regulator Airports Economic Regulatory Authority of India to allow levy and collection of development fee at Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport to the tune of Rs 518 crores, Lok Sabha was informed today.
Mumbai International Airport Limited (MIAL) is a joint venture company, which runs the CSI airport.
MIAL has collected Rs 252 crores during finacial year 2012-13, Rs 328 crores during financial year 14 and Rs 409 crores during the previos fiscal as development fee (DF), Minister of State for Civil Aviation Mahesh Sharma said in Lok Sabha.
“MIAL has sought levy and collection of additional DF for its contribution of Rs 518 crores towards construction of two metro stations at CSIA, Mumbai,” he said in reply to a question.
Airports Economic Regulatory Authority of India (AERA) has issued a Consultation Paper on November 4 seeking stakeholders’ comments on its proposal to allow levy of Rs 15 per embarking domestic passenger and Rs 75 per embarking international passenger towards Metro connectivity to the airport, he said.
Cong Raises Eyebrows Over Handing Over of Jaipur+Ahmedabad Airports to Changi
[New Delhi]Congress Raises Eyebrows Over Handing Over of Profit making Jaipur+Ahmedabad Airports to Changi For Management.
Both States Are Ruled BY BJP.
The Congress described as “surpising and shocking” the decision to open up Jaipur and Ahmedabad airports to Singapore’s Changi Airport Group for management operations and asked whether Airports Authority of India was taken into confidence.
Ahmed Patel, Political Secretary to Congress President Sonia Gandhi, tweeted “the manner in which profitable airports of Ahmedabad and Jaipur have been handed over to Changi is surprising and shocking.”
He also questioned why due process that encourages competition was avoided in handing over of airports.
The group would be managing the terminal operations and parking at these both airports.
Airports Authority of India (AAI) Chairman R K Srivastava had said the modalities with regard to Changi taking over the operation of Ahmedabad and Jaipur airports are being worked out.
AAI, which currently manages the two airports, is also awaiting from the government the official agreement for the proposed partnership.
In 2014-15, Ahmedabad airport handled 5.05 million passengers, including 1.22 million international travellers.
During the corresponding period, Jaipur airport handled 2.20 million passengers, of them 0.33 million overseas people.
By 2023-24, the volume of passengers at Ahmedabad is expected to go up to 6.77 million, and Jaipur 3.75 million.
Air India Improves Earnings And Reduces Expenses
[New Delhi] National Carrier Air India Improves Operational Performance Air India Improves Earning And Reduces Expenses
Air India’s net losses have declined by more than 22 % in the past four years, reflecting improvement in its financial and operational performance
Civil Aviation Minister Ashok Gajapathi Raju said In The Lok Sabha that the operating loss has consistently declined since the merger of erstwhile Indian Airlines and Air India and stood at Rs 2,636.10 crore in 2014-15 compared to Rs 5,138.69 crore in 2011-12.
During The Question Hour He Said “The net loss in 2014-15 is Rs 5,859.91 crore as against the loss of Rs 7,559.74 crore in 2011-12, which is a reduction by 22.5 %,”
The total revenue increased from Rs 14,713.81 crore in 2011-12 to Rs 20,606.27 crore in 2014-15, which is Rs 5,892.46 crore or an increase of 40.1 %,
He said Air India has turned EBIDTA (earnings before interest, depreciation, taxes and amortization) positive by Rs 337.77 crore as against a negative EBIDTA of Rs 2,236.05 crore in 2011-12.
While its Passenger Load Factor improved to 73.7 per cent in 2014-15 from 67.9 per cent in 2011-12, Raju said Air India has shown considerable improvement in on-time performance (OTP) and the overall network OTP achieved during 2014-15 was 72 per cent as against 68.2 per cent in 2011-12.
The Minister also said the national carrier’s total revenue in 2014-15 was 20,606.27 crore and expenses Rs 26,466.18 crore.
In the current financial year between April-September 2015, the total revenue stood at Rs 9,485 crore and expenses Rs 11,776.19 crore.
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