The purpose of imposing these differential rates was to entice the airlines to adopt their flight timings to non-peak hours. Sadly, after this has been announced, it seems that the airlines will not change their schedules at all, but would rather continue to fly at the same (existing) timings, with the burden of the added pricing being passed onto the customer. It does seem extremely likely that the actual point of this, as planned, would be defeated.
But then%u2026wasn%u2019t this expected? I feel it was. The Govt failed to understand that in their (apparently noble) move to penalize airline companies (operating at peak hours), they have only created a situation where the airline companies will now penalize the customers (with increased fares). Any person with a minimum level of intelligence would have been able to foresee this, but apparently, the MCA and the DGCA couldn%u2019t.
If there are airports that are already traffic-congested at peak hours, the Govt could just have refused to allow any more Arrivals/Departures from those airports%u2026simple! Any existing or new operator could simply have been told that due to the peak-hours being already over-congested, no more licenses would be given in those peak hours%u2026that%u2019s all! This would automatically have forced new license-seekers to move to less-congested timings%u2026why do you need to announce an idea, which you think is incredibly intelligent, only to see it flop a few weeks later? The Govt surely would not have needed to adapt to Differential Landing Rates to ensure this!
Earlier, in an effort to reduce %u2018traffic congestion%u2019 on telephone signals, we had full STD rates in the daytime, with half-rates, 1/3rd rates, and 1/4th rates at other times of the day? Remember what happened? Hardly anyone called in the daytime (except business calls); and when you wanted to call in the night, the %u2018routes%u2019 used to be perennially occupied. Did the situation serve anyone?
RE:The pupose will be defeated
by Debu Bhattacharyya on Mar 07, 2007 02:29 PM Permalink
you are absolutely right, Debu. Simple things have been complecated now. And yes, I agree to the differential STD rates earlier...which did not help anyone...
