Tuesday 25 February 2014

Protest by airlines may halve Dubai’s plea for 20,000 extra seats - The Economic Times

Protest by airlines may halve Dubai’s plea for 20,000 extra seats - The Economic Times:



"NEW DELHI: Concerns from Indian carriers on the quantum of increase in bilateral seat entitlements requested by Dubai, may result in the Emirati city getting only half of its initial request of enhancing weekly entitlements by 20,000 seats.



A top official of the civil aviation ministry told ET, that officials of various ministries met as part of an Inter Ministerial Group on Monday where a "couple" of airlines including Air India had raised concerns against Dubai's request of enhancing bilateral seat entitlements by 20,000 seats per week.



"The concerns of the Indian airlines will need to be addressed," said the official of the civil aviation ministry. "We will need to restart negotiations with Dubai and a meeting will be set up by the Joint Secretary Prabhat Kumar very soon. "



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