NEW DELHI: Aviation experts are divided on whether the government’s move to allot the now-grounded Jet Airways’ slots to rival domestic carriers would impact buyer sentiment.<\/p>\n
While the government has maintained that the slots given to other airlines could be taken back on a month’s notice, experts said it may not be easy given that airlines would book 3-6 months advance tickets for these flights.<\/p>\n
“If asked to return, these airlines may argue that a large number of passengers would be inconvenienced by withdrawal of flights. There is certainly the possibility of delay in returning the slots,” an industry source said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
NEW DELHI: Aviation experts are divided on whether the government’s move to allot the now-grounded Jet Airways’ slots to rival domestic carriers would impact buyer sentiment. While the government has maintained that the slots given to other airlines could be taken back on a month’s notice, experts said it may not be easy given that airlines would book 3-6 months advance tickets for these flights. “If asked to return, these airlines may argue that a large number of passengers would be inconvenienced by withdrawal of flights. There is certainly the possibility of delay in returning the slots,” an industry source […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[188,139,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269483","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}