Number of flights to Austria to be increased

By Our Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI, FEB. 7. The Ministry of Civil Aviation today announced the finalisation of bilaterals with Austria, Uzbekistan and Romania.

The agreement with Austria finalised in Vienna last month allows the designated airlines on each side to raise the weekly service with an Airbus-310 type aircraft from three to four weekly frequencies from summer and upto five from winter of 2000-2001. Further capacity enhancement will take place with the deployment of Airbus-300 (265 seats) or any other aircraft with similar capacity on their respective routes.

The designated airline for India is Air India and for Austria the Austrian Airlines.

The Austrian Airlines will make available to Air India a soft block allocation of 27 economy class and three business class seats per flight effective from February 12.

The Uzbek Airways has been permitted to utilise the unused entitlement of Indian carriers under a code-share arrangement. The designated airlines of Uzbekistan will be permitted to use the unutilised entitlement of Indian side between Uzbekistan and Delhi upto 850 seats per week.

The Uzbek Airways has been granted Amritsar and Thiruvanthapuram as additional points of call with facility to operate a maximum of three frequencies per week to the new station.

The Indian carriers have been allowed two additional points of call in Uzbekistan, namely Samarkand and Bukharh.

The commercial agreement has been liberalised with Romania with the reduction of royalty payable to the Air India by Tarom (designated carrier of Rumania) from $ 50 to $ 36 per passenger. This will facilitate resumption of services by Tarom to India.

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