Mumbai\u2019s airport is \u201cfacing problems\u201d because of regional connectivity flights and will not be able to give any more flight landing slots to regional carriers, its CEO said Tuesday. <\/p>\n
\u201cWhatever slots we have given for UDAN is already causing problems. UDAN flights are reducing the capacity of the airport. An aircraft (regional jet) carries only 19-20 passengers and it takes more time on the runway,\u201d said Rajeev Jain, CEO of Mumbai International Airport Ltd (MIAL), the GVK-led consortium running the Mumbai airport. <\/p>\n
\u201cDoes it (UDAN) make economic sense? Is it more economically viable to connect to connect Delhi-Mumbai or Kolhapur to Mumbai?\u201d he asked. <\/p>\n
UDAN or Ude Deshka Aam Nagrik (Let the common man fly) is the Narendra Modi government\u2019s ambitious scheme that seeks to air-connect India\u2019s smaller towns at cheap fares and develop hundreds of defunct airports.<\/p>\n
Mumbai, India\u2019s second busiest airport and its most constrained, has given about half of the 20 slots that required by regional carriers that have won bids for Mumbai-connected regional routes under the UDAN scheme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Mumbai\u2019s airport is \u201cfacing problems\u201d because of regional connectivity flights and will not be able to give any more flight landing slots to regional carriers, its CEO said Tuesday. \u201cWhatever slots we have given for UDAN is already causing problems. UDAN flights are reducing the capacity of the airport. An aircraft (regional jet) carries only 19-20 passengers and it takes more time on the runway,\u201d said Rajeev Jain, CEO of Mumbai International Airport Ltd (MIAL), the GVK-led consortium running the Mumbai airport. \u201cDoes it (UDAN) make economic sense? Is it more economically viable to connect to connect Delhi-Mumbai or Kolhapur […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[229],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}