Domestic airlines will operate 44.3 per cent fewer flights at 12,983 departures a week in the winter schedule 2020-21 which runs from October 25 till March 27 next year. The new schedule has been approved at 60 per cent of the capacity that airlines were flying in the pre-Covid period. Accordingly, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has cleared a schedule for 12,983 weekly domestic flights covering 95 airports in winter 2020-21 – down 44.3% from 23,307 in winter 2019-20. Globally, airlines follow a winter and summer schedule.
As per the schedule released by the DGCA, SpiceJet will have 54.7 per cent fewer weekly departures during winter schedule 2020-21 at 1957 as against 4316 previously. Similarly, Air India will operate half of its flights at 1,126 weekly departures during winter schedule 2020-21 as against 2,254 weekly departures previously.
