Air India’s international flights may have been crippled by the ongoing pilots’ strike but the domestic front also does not have any good news for the airline. DGCA’s latest figures showed AI-domestic slipped to the fourth position in April, with low cost carrier SpiceJet marginally overtaking it in the market share pecking order, which is headed by the Jet-Jet-Lite combine, followed by low cost carrier IndiGo. Moreover, AI-domestic had the highest cancellation of flights with 5.2% cancellations, followed by Kingfisher’s 3.3%. The industry average for cancellations was 1.5%. Low cost carriers IndiGo and GoAir had the lowest cancellation rate of 0.1%. Even AI’s on time performance was the lowest at 79.7%, followed closely by SpiceJet’s 80.7%. The high cancellation of AI-domestic flights has surprised the aviation industry as the pilots of erstwhile Indian Airlines have not been on strike. Pilots of erstwhile AI have been on strike for the past 10 days over their IA counterparts being allowed to fly the Boeing 787 Dreamliner.
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