DGCA: Airlines to operate 21,941 flights on domestic routes in the winter schedule

This is the second consecutive year when the number of domestic flights to be operated in the winter schedule has been dropped by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation(DGCA) with the maximum number of flights to be operated by IndiGo and SpiceJet.

Scheduled airlines will start operating 21,941 domestic flights each week on domestic routes on October 30 as part of the winter schedule.

Directorate General of Civil Aviation

There will be 1.55 percent fewer weekly flights than the 22,287 flights that were run during the last winter schedule. From October 30, 2022, through March 25, 2023, the winter schedule will be in force.

There will be 21,941 weekly departures in the forthcoming Winter Schedule 2022 from 105 airports. It is to be noted that this is the second consecutive year that the Directorate General of Civil Aviation(DGCA) has reduced the number of flights permitted to operate in India.

In comparison to the winter schedule of the year before the pandemic, 2019–20, which had 23,307 departures, the winter schedule of 2022 experienced a 4.4 percent decrease in departures last year.

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“Out of these 105 airports Deoghar, Shimla, and Rourkela are the new airports proposed by the scheduled airlines,” aviation regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation(DGCA) stated in a release on Friday. Out of the total 21,941 departures, the maximum will be by IndiGo at 10,085 followed by SpiceJet at 3,193.

The number of departures for Fly Big has grown significantly showing a growth of 84.88 percent. Similarly, other airlines like Vistara, Alliance Air, and Star Air also showed an increase in flight numbers by 15.88 percent, 13.50 percent, and 11.68 percent respectively. 

First has experienced the largest decrease in the number of flights it will operate; instead of operating 2,290 flights per week during the winter of 2022, GoFirst will now only operate 1,390 flights per week.

While other airlines like Air India and Indigo joined Go Air with a drop of 3.07 percent and  1.54 percent respectively. The other airlines like SpiceJet and AirAsia showed a marginal increase of 6.61 percent and 4.95 percent respectively.

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