Mumbai: Amid the hectic activity at the airport, a Jet Airways pilot, Zahir Abbas Killegar, and his brother Tauseef, were booked by the Sahar police for allegedly attacking a CISF guard on duty, after he pulled them up for parking near a crowded terminal.
Around 12.15 am, on Wednesday night, both brothers were heading towards departure terminal A to catch their flight to Canada for a personal trip, when they had a skirmish with the jawan.
"Both the pilot and his brother got in a scuffle with the CISF jawan, after he asked them not to park their vehicle near the terminal," said Dilip Patil, senior inspector at Sahar police station.
"The terminal was overcrowded with vehicles. This irritated the jawan on duty and he asked people to move their vehicles. The brothers, who had already stopped the vehicle in front of the terminal's gate, refused to comply, saying that he should ask others to move first.
"Killegar told him that he is a pilot and knows the laws at the airport. This infuriated the jawan who picked up a brawl with them. Soon other jawans gathered and called the police," said an airport staff.
"There was no major fight between the two parties. It was a war of words where neither the parties were ready to give up," added the staffer.
Senior Commandant, CISF, Jitender Negi, he said, "All the details have been provided to Sahar police station. You should ask them."
The brothers, who reside in Agripada, were booked under Sections 353 (assault or criminal force to deter public servant), 332 (voluntarily causing hurt to deter public servant from his duty) and 34 (acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention) of the IPC. They were later granted bail by an Andheri court on a bond of Rs. 15,000 each.
1. Jet Air’s on-time performance soars to 89% in Feb
Jet Airways, Jetlite and GoAir were the only three domestic airlines that reported a month-on-month increase in seat factor (number of seats occupied against number of seats available) this February.
All other domestic airlines saw a marginal decline with overall domestic seat factor also declining owing to end of peak travel season.
As per data released by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), Jet’s seat factor was up to 76.5% (73.9%), JetLite’s to 80.2% (74.6%) and GoAir’s to 87.1% (83.3%) during the month.
The biggest decline, almost by 3 percentage points, was seen in Kingfisher’s seat factor at 83.6% (86.5%), followed by Air India at 68% (69.3%), SpiceJet at 81% (82.6%) and IndiGo at 87.6% (88.6%).
In terms of market share though, Kingfisher continued to rule the domestic skies, despite IndiGo snapping at its heels. While Vijay Mallya’s Kingfisher network carried almost one in five domestic passengers, with 19% market share in February, low fare IndiGo was not far behind at 18.7%. Jet Airways was also close behind IndiGo with 18% share of the market and Air India (domestic) was at the fourth place with 15.8% share. SpiceJet was a distant fifth at 13.8%, followed by Jetlite at 8.1% and then Go Air at 6.6%.
In a statement on Wednesday, though, Jet claimed market leadership when taken together with low fare subsidiary JetLite. “Jet Airways, together with JetLite, successfully retained its leadership position in the Indian Aviation sector with a dominant market share of 26.1%....Jet Airways carried 3.81 lakh international revenue paying passengers in the month of February 2011 with an overall seat factor of 81.1%. The airline also carried 8.24 lakh domestic revenue paying passengers with a seat factor of 76.5%,” the statement said.
But Jet’s passenger complaint record wasn’t so rosy, with the airline facing maximum complaints per 10,000 passengers at 4.1.
Though the number in itself is quite small, it compares poorly with Air India Domestic’s 1.1, which was surprisingly the topper in this category. Kingfisher saw 1.7 complaints, JetLite 2.1, GoAir 2.2, SpiceJet 2.8 and IndiGo 3.1.
In the on-time performance (OTP) area, Jet again topped with 9 out of 10 flights taking off on time. Jet’s OTP was the highest at 89.2%, followed by 88.7% for Kingfisher and 86.8% for IndiGo. The worst was SpiceJet, with almost one in four flights not operating on time and an OTP of just 73.9%. Air India domestic also had a similar record with 25% flights getting delayed and OTP of just 75.8%. One in five JetLite flights also could not fly on time at 80.6% OTP. GoAir’s OTP was bettter at 83.2%.
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