Friday 26 / April / 2024
Muscat: Due to the ‘inconvenience' caused by the grounding of the entire Jet Airways fleet, India's Ministry of Civil Aviation has decided to temporarily allocate Jet Airways' cancelled slots to other airlines.
The Ministry issued a statement regarding its future plans to contain the situation in a way that would reduce inconvenience caused to passengers by Jet Airways’ financial crisis.
In a statement, MoCA said, "Crisis of Jet Airways and suspension of flights has caused inconvenience to many air passengers. The Ministry is seized of this matter. To reduce the inconvenience of passengers and facilitate induction of additional capacity it has been decided to allot some of the slots vacated by Jet Airways to other airlines on a purely temporary basis, for a period of 3 months.'
This ministerial decision comes after Indian airline Jet Airways announced that they were temporarily suspending operations on Wednesday, April 16, due to a lack of finances.
"In order to ensure that the slots are allocated in a most equitable and transparent manner, a committee has been constituted by the government, comprising of DGCA, AAI, Joint Venture/Pvt. Airlines/Slot Coordinators. This committee would be allocating slots on a temporary basis for 3 months only to those airlines which bring in additional capacity (additional aircrafts)," the ministry added.
"The historic rights of Jet Airways, as per the provision of the extant 'MoCA guidelines for Slot Allocation' will be protected. These slots would be made available to Jet Airways, as and when they revive their operations, as per the extant guidelines," the ministry said.
