Monday, April 24, 2006

Air-India reports rise in passengers flying into Doha

Doha: Despite an intense competition in the India route, that saw additional capacity by direct and indirect carriers, Air India results for Qatar in the financial year 2005-06 have been remarkable.
The station carried over 23000 passengers ex Doha registering a growth of 12 per cent over the previous year. The carriage India-Doha however witnessed a much higher increase of almost 22 per cent mainly because of huge inflow of workers from India that are being engaged in various infrastructural and energy field projects, said Debashis Golder, Manager, Air India, Qatar.
While the overall growth in the passenger carriage on the route was a whopping 18 per cent over same period last year, the load factor improved from 68 per cent to 76 per cent.
The revenue generated by the station correspondingly jumped by 10 per cent during the same period.
Regarding Air India Express flights, Golder informed that with the expected arrival of own B737-800 aircraft that have been recently ordered, the budget carrier operations were scheduled from end November 2006.
24/04/06 The Peninsula
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