Domestic airlines would undertake a total of 11,886 weekly flights during the 2013 Winter Schedule, an increase of over nine per cent compared to 2012. The Winter Schedule begins from the last Sunday of October and goes on till the last Sunday in March.
Sources in Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) said that IndiGo and SpiceJet would fly almost 22 per cent more in the domestic sectors in the forthcoming winter schedule.
They said that inspite of the hike in the number of flights, the airlines would not be operating to any new destination within the country.
Both Jet Airways and its subsidiary JetLite and Air India and subsidiary Alliance Air would have lesser number of services this winter.
Jet-JetLite would operate 3,366 flights this year compared with 3,369 in 2012, Air India-Alliance would fly 1,965 flights as against 2,169 last year, the figures showed.