Air India tops flight cancellation list

New Delhi: No frill carrier IndiGo had the least number of flight cancellations while national carrier Air India fared the worst between July 2011 to June 2012. IndiGo cancelled just 0.3 per cent of its total flights between July 2011 and June this year.
The airline was to operate a total of 1,02,571 flights, of which only 303 were cancelled during this period, a senior official of the Civil Aviation Ministry said.
On the other hand, Air India, which faced a 58-day-long strike by its pilots, had the most number of its flights cancelled (3.4 per cent). Air India was to operate a total of 1,06,334 flights, of which 3,604 flights were cancelled and interestingly, 462 flights were cancelled in April, when there was no internal problem in the airline.
02/09/12 Financial Express

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