Business Standard

Thursday, December 26, 2024 | 07:18 PM ISTEN Hindi

Notification Icon
userprofile IconSearch

In midst of holiday season, Dubai flights hit by seat allocation dispute

The dispute required the intervention of external affairs ministry post which Dubai has agreed to allow Indian airlines to operate 4,800 seats per week

airlines, flights, aviation, plane, runway, airport
Premium

At present Air India, GoAir, IndiGo, Vistara, and SpiceJet are operating flights to Dubai. Emirates and flydubai are UAE carriers operating from Dubai

Aneesh PhadnisArindam Majumder Mumbai/Delhi
Indian carriers are being forced to cancel flights to Dubai or consider flights to other destinations in the United Arab Emirates following a seat allocation dispute between the two countries.
 
The dispute required the intervention of external affairs ministry post which Dubai has agreed to allow Indian airlines to operate 4,800 seats daily.
 
This works to around 26 daily flights with an 180 seat Airbus A320 aircraft. Currently, Indian carriers were utilising around 6,800 seats to Dubai, it is learnt. The seat allocation will come into effect from Monday.
 
The development, which comes close on the heels

What you get on BS Premium?

  • Unlock 30+ premium stories daily hand-picked by our editors, across devices on browser and app.
  • Pick your 5 favourite companies, get a daily email with all news updates on them.
  • Full access to our intuitive epaper - clip, save, share articles from any device; newspaper archives from 2006.
  • Preferential invites to Business Standard events.
  • Curated newsletters on markets, personal finance, policy & politics, start-ups, technology, and more.
VIEW ALL FAQs

Need More Information - write to us at assist@bsmail.in