This is no mistake. Since 2008, an official ban has been attack the airliner A380 into the country. Officials from the Ministry of Civil Aviation –including the Minister himself- continually admitted that the ban was solely implemented to shield India’s largely sick airline business. However, anyone can question the real potency of such a live. While major carriers such as Air Asian country or Jet Airways manage to survive, the recent bankruptcy of Kingfisher is a blatant proof that advocate measures will solely lag the collapse of a carrier however on no account reserve it.
Meanwhile, competition has already taken its toll on profits of local Indian carriers, which additionally struggle beneath high fuel prices, high airports’ taxes and price competition.
Mostly affected by the ban on airliner A380 were Air France, Emirates and Lufthansa. Air France and Lufthansa were among the first to precise the will to fly the airliner A380 to Asian country. Their wishes have thus not being granted, despite a 2011 promise of the Ministry of Aviation to get away with an “aircraft type” clause in current bilateral air service agreements. At time, a senior official of the Ministry stipulated that “the government has in principle agreed to try and do away with the ‘aircraft type’ clause in ASAs. After we have a tendency to relax, foreign airlines can bring in even A380s to Asian country. Our only concern is that foreign airlines ought to fly to Asian country the weekly variety of seats assigned to them in the bilateral agreement,” a senior ministry official, who declined to be known, said.’
While Air France associate degreed Lufthansa appear to have abandoned the thought to serve Asian country with an airliner A380 for the present, the fight is now carried by Emirates, which feels very discriminated by the live. “The Indian market, which is large for United States of America, since May 2008 has been capped in terms of seats and the variety of points we will serve,” Emirates president Tim Clark told recently to the aviation publication ATW.
Emirates operates services to 10 destinations in Asian country and would love to switch to the airliner 380 on bound routes and to open 5 to 6 new destinations within the country. In India, only 3 airports -Delhi, Hyderabad and Bangalore- can handle A380s.