Airline companies lose big due to fog related cancellations

Airline companies lose big due to fog related cancellations

Domestic airline companies in India lost big as post winter fog related problems led to massive delays and cancellation of flights. These companies have reportedly lost crores of rupees due to these delays.

Surprisingly, the winter season itself did not cause such a huge problem for the airline companies in India as it usually does every other year. As per incoming reports, as many as 1,640 flights were cancelled due to bad weather since December.

One of the worst affected parties was the budget airline company Air Deccan who had to cancel as many as 805 flights during this period. The problems lasted only around 7-10 days and it was enough to cause these massive financial losses for the companies.

Government owned Indian (Airlines) was also affected massively as it had to cancel 351 flights. Jet Airways, which recently acquired Air Sahara also suffered due to cancellation of as many as 227 flights. Air India and SpiceJet cancelled 72 flights while Air Sahara cancelled 64 flights during this period. Kingfisher Airlines and GoAir had to cancel 43 and 6 flights each.

Indian Airlines actually revealed their losses, which were close to around Rs 1.83 crores.