NEW DELHI: As summer air fares rise on high-volume routes connecting major Indian cities with Doha, Qatar Airways on Wednesday said it has asked Indian aviation authorities to permit additional flights on such routes on temporary basis.
“Our contingency plan is designed to make an additional number of seats available on certain high volume routes (Mumbai, New Delhi, Bangalore), but only a temporary basis and without formal changes to the current weekly seat capacity entitlement established under the 2009 Qatar-India bilateral aviation framework,” said the airline.
With Jet Airways shutting down its operations on April 17, there has been sudden reduction in the number of flights connecting Indian cities with Qatar’s capital Doha.
