Lufthansa seeks nod to fly A380 into India
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India is so important a destination that Lufthansa would pull out a super-jumbo A380 from one of its scheduled destinations to service the Delhi route, its CEO Carsten Spohr has said. “We will take an aircraft from somewhere else but one of them will fly to New Delhi,” Hindustan Times quoted him saying.”We would have put Delhi on the list of first seven destinations rather than some other destination if we had a choice.”Lufthansa has applied to introduce the A380 on its Delhi-Frankfurt route. It has been over a year but there has been no word from the Indian government, the report said, adding that permission was unlikely to come anytime soon.”Part of the reason why the government refuses permission is because the likes of Air India and Jet Airways cannot compete with such a big capacity competition,” Saj Ahmad, London-based airline analyst from FBE Aerospace, was reported saying.Spohr was more circumspect. “It is difficult to say what is stopping (the government). We really don’t know,” he told Hindustan Times. Giving the example of San Francisco, where Lufthansa became the first airline to fly an A380 last month, he said, “The idea of attracting more passengers into the market and making investments is what the Americans really appreciated.””It would have the same effect in Delhi that it has in San Francisco. That has been argument and we do understand that there are some doubts about that.”
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