more-inThe Economic Survey released on Friday has argued that the Indian carriers lagged behind in utilising their foreign air traffic rights compared with their international counterparts. However, data compiled by the Civil Aviation Ministry shows that both Indian and foreign carriers have exhausted their bilateral quota on the India-Dubai sector already. Airlines from Dubai and India are entitled to fly 66,504 seats into each other’s territory, as per the air services pact. The Survey further overstated the utilisation of bilateral air traffic quota by airlines from India and Kuwait. According to the estimates cited in the Survey, airlines from Kuwait utilised 91.7% seats compared with 38.2% seats utilised by Indian airlines.

Source: The Hindu August 12, 2017 15:05 UTC