Lok Sabha Question No. 1892 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2017-07-27
Subject: Air Safety
Ministry: CIVIL AVIATION
Asked by: DEVJI MANSINGRAM PATEL, KONAKALLA NARAYANA RAO

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF CIVIL AVIATION LOK SABHA

QUESTION NO. 1892 (To be answered on the July 2017) 27th

## AIR SAFETY

1892.

SHRI DEVJI M. PATEL

SHRI KONAKALLA NARAYANA RAO

Will the Minister of CIVIL AVIATION

## ANSWER

Minister of State in the Ministry of CIVIL AVIATION

(Shri Jayant Sinha)

(a) With large scale recruitment during the recent years for the various posts, the present staff strength in DGCA is sufficient for conducting safety audits/surveillance and monitoring the status:

- (b) International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) does not rank any country: However; based on the audit conducted by ICAO under its Universal

(as a percentage) of safety oversight system has been done:

(c) & (d) India is one of the fastest growing aviation markets in the world:

be pleased to state: -

- (a) whether there is acute shortage of necessary technical expertise or people or basic infrastructure to the rules and' regulations implemented to monitor the air safety in the country and if so, the reasons therefor; get
- 55th place among 185 countries with regard to air safety perspective and if the details thereof; SO,
- (d) if so, the details thereof;
- (c) whether India is one of the countries in the World's fastest growing aviation market but the country' $ skies are getting increasingly unsafe as the air traffic grows and cabin crew of Indian carriers are facing regulatory action for various safety violations;
- (e) whether the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) is planning to introduce full automatisation of On Time Performance (OTP) recording mechanism at airports; and
- the country?

Regarding the safety violations by cabin crew, IO such violation has been reported to DGCA during the\_last two years

On receipt of concerns expressed by scheduled domestic airline operators on the inconsistency in On-Time Performance (OTP) data recorded through Airport Collaborative Decisicn Making (ACDM) process and that submitted by private airport operators te DGCA, a Committee was constituted by the Director General of Civil Aviation to look into the the source of data, it correctness and presentation: The Committee made few recommendations which are given at Annexure-A. These observations have been implemented by DGCA:

(e) & (0 DGCA has issued Air Transport Circular 04 of 2009 titled Airport Level Monitoring of On-time performance (OTP)" The computation of ontime performance of airlines is in the domain 0f airport operators.

## Observations\_made\_by \_the\_Committee

Annexure-A

1. Airport operator should ensure that a systern to ATC (Air Traffic Controller), AOCC synchronize clocksltimings between VDGS (Visual Display Guidarice (Aircraft Operation Control Centre) and Airport System) is in place.
2. 2 Airline must ensure that the aircraft Addressing and equipped with ACARS (Aircraft Communication Reporting System), the ACARs "Out" messages for OTP Performance) are configured to on wheel (On-Time brake release, to ensure that actual OTP is movementlspeed and not on parking with AOCC. recorded and the same should be shared trigger
3. The OTP of narrow-body jet aircraft and turbodeclared separately: prop aircraft should be captured and
4. 4\_ Capturing OTP based on arrival data as is Recording OTP based in the USA, may be considered. on arrivals will push the airlines to make up for done delays,

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