Mumbai: The country's top airports will witness about 8% growth in daily departures with airlines adding flights in summer.
Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru and Hyderabad airports which handle over 50% of air traffic handled 1,114 departures daily in winter schedule and the figure is expected to go up to 1,203 departures in summer owing to proposed increase in domestic and international flights.
Directorate General of Civil Aviation approves the schedules of both domestic and foreign airlines and summer schedule will come into effect from next week. The regulator however is yet to announce the approved schedules.
Domestic traffic grew 9.7% in 2014 over previous year and January saw a growth of 21% in domestic traffic fuelled by discount offers.
IndiGo which is the largest domestic airline by market share is introducing a flight between Kolkata-Dimapur and additional flights from Delhi to Kolkata, Varanasi and Indore and flights between Mumbai-Indore and Mumbai-Raipur.
25/03/15 Aneesh Phadnis/Business Standard
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Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru and Hyderabad airports which handle over 50% of air traffic handled 1,114 departures daily in winter schedule and the figure is expected to go up to 1,203 departures in summer owing to proposed increase in domestic and international flights.
Directorate General of Civil Aviation approves the schedules of both domestic and foreign airlines and summer schedule will come into effect from next week. The regulator however is yet to announce the approved schedules.
Domestic traffic grew 9.7% in 2014 over previous year and January saw a growth of 21% in domestic traffic fuelled by discount offers.
IndiGo which is the largest domestic airline by market share is introducing a flight between Kolkata-Dimapur and additional flights from Delhi to Kolkata, Varanasi and Indore and flights between Mumbai-Indore and Mumbai-Raipur.
25/03/15 Aneesh Phadnis/Business Standard
