Vistara airline crisis

Vistara preparing to minimise ongoing crisis.

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New Delhi: Vistara seems to be finally resolving the issue of shortage of pilots leading to cancellation of flights that has been troubling the passengers for a few days now. The airline on Sunday said it will scale back its operations by 25-30 flights per day to ease the pressure on pilots. This comes a day after Vistara CEO Vinod Kannan said around 98 per cent of its pilots have signed the new contracts with the revised pay structure.

The airline faced sudden trouble as it had to cancel the flights after its pilots started taking sick leaves leaving Vistara is massive problem. The pilots were against the new pay structure that affected the seniority and pay of the pilots.

The airline has now stressed that the cancellations were done mostly in the domestic network and much ahead of time to minimize inconvenience to the passengers, reported NDTV.

“We are carefully scaling back our operations by around 25-30 flights per day, i.e. roughly 10% of the capacity we were operating. This will take us back to the same level of flight operations as at the end of February 2024, and provide the much-needed resilience and buffer in the rosters,” an airline spokesperson said, quoted the NDTV report.

“In line with what we had said earlier, with this all the changes for the month of April 2024 have been done and the situation has already gotten better with our on-time performance improving for the last few days. Looking ahead, we are hopeful of stable operations for the rest of the month and beyond,” the spokesperson was further quoted as saying.

Earlier this week, aviation regulator DGCA asked Vistara to submit a daily report on flight cancellations and delays. The Ministry of Civil Aviation is also monitoring the situation at present.