Air India, Jet Airways, SpiceJet, IndiGo unable to utilise their bilateral quota

NEW DELHI: Domestic carriers Air India, Jet AirwaysBSE 2.03 %, SpiceJetBSE 0.66 % and IndiGo offer 44% fewer seats than their foreign peers on overseas routes, with the result that Indian travellers have more options from international airlines for flying out of the country.

Data on foreign bilateral utilisation compiled by the civil aviation ministry shows that the foreign carriers offer 432,456 seats a week for Indian passengers, compared to 242,365 seats offered by Indian carriers.

As per the data, the Indian carriers are utilising only about 57% of the 421,524 weekly seats allocated to them on international routes. The data also shows that Indian carriers are not using bilateral entitlements with about 70 out of 109 countries that the country has bilateral air services agreements with. As per the bilateral air services agreements, Indian carriers can offer as many as 900,000 seats per week.
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