Etihad fastest growing foreign airline to India

MUMBAI, India – Etihad has emerged the fastest growing international airline to India with 55 percent capacity addition over last August, according to a newsitem in the Business Standard.

MUMBAI, India – Etihad has emerged the fastest growing international airline to India with 55 percent capacity addition over last August, according to a newsitem in the Business Standard.

Jet Airways remains the number one airline serving foreign routes from India based on the number of seats offered and passengers flown.
Air India and Emirates rank second and third in both categories. Jet Airways flew 6.3 million passengers on foreign routes from India in 2014-15.

According to a report on anna.aero, a website that analyses airline route planning, Etihad is deploying 29,971 one-way weekly seats from India to Abu Dhabi in August, an addition of 55 percent over the same month last year.

TOP 10 CARRIERS ON FOREIGN ROUTES

(based on weekly seat capacity)

* Jet Airways
* Air India
* Emirates
* Etihad
* Air India Express
* Qatar Airways
* IndiGo
* Air Arabia
* Saudi Arabian Airlines
* Thai Airways

Etihad has been able to introduce flights faster than other carriers because of the additional 37,000 weekly seat entitlements granted to airlines from Abu Dhabi in 2013.

Etihad Airways added a third daily flight from Mumbai to Abu Dhabi and a daily service from Kolkata to Abu Dhabi in February.

In addition, a third daily flight was added from New Delhi to Abu Dhabi in May.

The second and third fastest growing airlines on foreign routes are Air India Express and Thai Airways, according to anna.aeroโ€™s report. Air India Express has added flights to Muscat, Dubai, Doha and Kuwait from Mangaluru and Kozhikode, thereby increasing its fleet utilization.

Jet Airways is offering 88,000 seats on foreign routes in August, a rise of 11 percent, and Air India is offering over 72,000 seats per week.

Emirates remains the largest foreign airline serving India with over 60,000 seats per week and the Dubai-based airline has added nine percent capacity to India by over last August.

The only top airline reducing capacity in August is Singapore Airlines, according to the website.

Singapore Airlinesโ€™ seat capacity from India is lower by 2.1 percent because of a change in aircraft on the Singapore-Kolkata route.

The change was being made in view of seasonal demand, a Singapore Airlines spokesperson said.

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