Lok Sabha Question No. 6381 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2018-04-05
Subject: Cancellation of Flights by Airlines
Ministry: CIVIL AVIATION
Asked by: GOPALAKRISHNAN CHINNARAJ, (SMT.) RATNA DE(NAG), MAMTAZ SANGHAMITA, NAGARAJAN P., HARI OM PANDEY, SANTOSH KUMAR

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF CIVIL AVIATION LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 6381

8 (To be answered on the April 2018) 5th

Cancellation of Flights by Airlines

6381.

DR. C. GOPALAKRISHNAN

DR. RATNA DE (NAG)

DR MAMTAZ SANGHAMITA

SHRI P. NAGARAJAN

SHRI HARI OM PANDAY

SHRI SANTOSH KUMAR

## Will the Minister of CIVIL AVIATION

be pleased to state:-

- (a) whether many airlines both public and private cancelled various flights in the last minutes on the same in the recent past and if s0, the details thereof; day
- (c) whether the Government has issued any notices/ warning letters to airlines like IndiGo and GoAir regarding bulk cancellation of their flights due to technical faults in recent past and if s0, the details thereof;
- (b) the reasons for cancelling all the flights without prior notice at the last moment;
- (d) if not; the reasons therefor; for not sending any notices so far;
- (f) the total number of flights cancelled during the last one month, airlineswise and sector-wise; and
- (e) the reasons for not cancelling their licenses until they become technically perfect;
- (g) the alternative measures taken by the concerned airlines to mitigate the problems faced by the passengers who booked the flight tickets in advance?

## ANSWER

Minister of State in the Ministry of CIVIL AVIATION

(Shri Jayant Sinha)

(2) & (): No such data is maintained by this Ministry. However; as a part of submission of monthly traffic data in Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) by the scheduled domestic airlines; the overall cancellation rate for the month of January 2018 has been 1.26%. The various reason for the cancellation and their attribution are as follow:

Technical -13.2 %

Operational- 3.4%

Weather- 41.3%

Consequential & Miscellaneous- 41.4%

Commercial 0.8%

- Occto @): No such notice has been issued by DGCA. However; in occurrences of aborted take-off and view of few A320neo fleet Worldwide fitted Inflight Shut Down (FSD) happening on and 03 A320neos with PW 1100 engines,11 A320neos of safety of Go Air were grounded by DGCA, keeping in view the wish to travel. Indigo

Zoom Air 23

(f: Airlines- wise details in respect of numbers of month of January 2018, as submitted flight cancelled; for the submission of traffic by the airlines as a part of monthly data are given below:

Air Deccan- 12

Air India 190

556 Indigo

Jet Lite 27

Spice Jet 62

Jet Airways 105

Vistara -15

Go Air- 33

Trujet 03

Air Asia 06

Total-1032

82088  Cancellation as percentage of scheduled January-2018 is cancellation data is not maintained, flights is 1.26%. Sector wise

- (g): Both & Go Air have informed that have taken steps to either accommodate the affected appropriate process the refund; if the passengers in their existing fieet or passengers desired so\_ Indigo they

M, Part IV issued by DGCA; airline are required to facilitate 3, Series the passenger in the event of cancellation. As submitted or compensate Part of monthly Submission of traffic by the airlines, as a 17425 in the month of January 2018, incurred by the airlines towards facilities & were compensation etc. hotel accommodation & data,