Loss Making Routes of Air India

Posted by- Neelam Mathews Sept 4, 2012

A task force, headed by Joint Secretary, Ministry of Civil Aviation, has been constituted to examine route economics and to find ways and means to rationalize the routes so as to make the operations more cost effective. The Minister of Civil Aviation Ajit Singh said in Parliament- Air India and its subsidiaries are operating flights on 68 international sectors and 122 domestic sectors. Based on April-June, 2012 Provisional route-wise analysis, the details of routes are as under:- 1) 99 Services meeting fuel cost but not meeting cash cost; 2) 68 Services meeting cash cost but not meeting total cost; 3) 16 services meeting total cost.