No-frills carriers SpiceJet and IndiGo would operate over 20 per cent additional flights this winter than they flew in 2012.
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.
The latest DGCA data shows that IndiGo plans to operate 2,987 departures a week up from 2,444 departures a week it operated in the winter of 2012. Similarly, SpiceJet would fly 2,718 departures a week this season, up from 2,233 last year.
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.
