An engineering student has been booked for allegedly touching the emergency door of a Delhi-bound flight, police said on Monday. According to the police, the accused engineering student was going from Chennai to Delhi on Saturday. Police said the accused touched the emergency gate during the flight. Noticing this, the flight crew stopped him and informed the flight captain, who decided to report the incident to the police. However, the accused said that he did not want to open the emergency door, rather he only touched its handle. Police have said that notice has been served to the accused and legal action is being taken against him. Though he has not been arrested, he will have to appear in court.
Well, IndiGo is currently the largest airline by market share in the domestic aviation sector in January 2023. Air India and Vistara grabbed the second and third positions with a market share of 9.2 per cent and 8.8 per cent, respectively, followed by Indigo, which had 54.6. percentage share. Additionally, scheduled domestic airlines received a total of 418 complaints related to passengers in January 2023. In January 2023, there were roughly 0.33 complaints for every 10,000 passengers.
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Indigo carried 68.47 lakh air passengers during January, while Air India and Vistara carried 11.55 lakh and 11.05 lakh air passengers, respectively, according to the latest data for January by aviation regulator DGCA.
Similarly, GoAir had a market share of 8.4 per cent during January with 10.53 lakh air passengers. SpiceJet carried 9.14 lakh passengers in January with a market share of 7.3 per cent.
According to DGCA data released on Monday, the total cancellation rate for domestic airlines scheduled for January this year stood at 1.41 per cent.
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The main reasons for cancellation have been identified as weather, technical or operational. The highest number of 81.1 per cent flights were canceled due to weather related reasons and 4.8 per cent flights were canceled due to technical reasons during January.
The highest number of complaints in January were reported by Alliance Air (6.9/10,000 passengers), followed by Star Air (3.7/10,000 passengers), Fly Big (1.4/10,000 passengers), Air India (1.3/10,000 passengers), DGCA data said. Got to and SpiceJet (0.6/10,000 passengers). The leading reasons for complaints are flight problems (27.3 percent) followed by refunds (23.7 percent) and baggage (20.6 percent).
with agency inputs