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A young aged guy recently employeed in DN had an argument with me the other day and said that his airline offers 95% on time performence Shocked

and that the delays in the media are only hyped up and a few incidents that take place.
Althoug i agree with him that few delays are hyped up in the media but95% on time performence? Shocked

says he was told about those figures when they were under training Rolling Eyes

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HAWK21M · Posted: Wed Mar 28, 2007 10:30 pm Post subject:

It depends on what consititutes their percntage ratings of on time performance.This can be manuplated too.
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blrsea · Member Joined: 25 Mar 2007 Posts: 182

DN inflight magazine mentions on-time as flights which complete within one hour of the scheduled arrival. So even for flights less than 1 hour duration, if they are off by one hour , it counts as on-time Smile

But to be fair to them, based on four flights that I have flown with them so far, all of them have been on time. Maybe I have been lucky, or media exaggerates the delays. Truth probably lies somewhere in between Smile

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Aiel · Member Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 927 Location: Bangalore

Heard Gopinath claiming the same in an article/interview. Let me see if I can dig it up.
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Aiel · Member Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 927 Location: Bangalore

Heard Gopinath claiming the same in an article/interview. Let me see if I can dig it up.
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blrsea · Member Joined: 25 Mar 2007 Posts: 182

The inflight magazine of DN advertises the same 95% on-time performance which it says is within 1 hr of scheduled completion of flight. Had an interesting experience last friday when flying HYD-BLR on DN. The flight was delayed by 20 mins, but there was no announcement by DN. People had lined up for boarding by 5:45 for 6:00pm flight but there was no announcement and no DN representative was near the boarding area. finally, one turned up and on inquiring, said that the flight was delayed by 20 mins. There was still no public announcement. After around 15 mins, I went back to her and asked her why no announcement was made and she said she informed individual passengers which I found hard to believe. I asked her if the incoming flight had arrived and she said no. I then told her why they hadn't announced it as other airlines announced delays of even 10-15 mins. I asked her if it was company policy to not announce delay till a specified period of time, and she said no. I asked her why they weren't being frank with the passengers, as there was no shame in announcing a delay. She just shrugged and embarrassingly told that DN considered it a delay only if it was above 1 hr! At this time, the time was 6:10 and flight was supposed to leave at 6:00pm! And even if flight was supposed to leave at 6:20pm, boarding should have started by now!

Some passengers hearing my exchange with her said that this was routine with DN as they weren't sure when the plane would arrive. The DN lady then quietly left her station. At 6:20pm, there was an announcement by DN that there was a "further 20 min delay" and that flight would leave at 6:40pm. This when no initial announcement was made about the delay! Finally, boarding started at 6:40 and flight departed at 7:00pm

the_380 · Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 2:54 pm Post subject:

interesting...indeed really interesting Twisted Evil

A 1 hour delay is called a delay but a 59 minutes 'delay' means on time !!!!!!! Shocked

Can shumbudy pleashe exhplain me how this ish possihble? im drunk shorry Rolling Eyes

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How is this airline still running?

Just unbelievable.

Recent SMS:
Why is Air Deccan flying all the time?
To Simplyfly and Simplycheat.

Joke at Chennai airport is that its in the air most of the time just to avoid paying the hefty taxes.

Another email joke:

Good morning, Ladies and Gentlemen. This is your captain PATEL welcoming
both seated and standing passengers on board of Air Deccan.
We apologize for the four-day delay in taking off, it was due to bad
weather and partly due to the search for a missing tyre.

This is flight 717 to Mumbai. Landing there is not guaranteed, but we
will End up somewhere in India. And, if luck is in our favor, we may
even be landing on your village!

Air Deccan has an excellent safety-record. In fact, our safety standards
are so high, that even terrorists are afraid to fly with us! It is with
pleasure; I announce that, starting this year, over 30% of our
Passengers have reached their destination.

If our engines are too noisy for you, on passenger request, we can
arrange to turn them off. To make your free fall to earth pleasant and
memorable, we serve Complimentary DHARU and Wada pavw. For our
not-so-religious passengers, we are the only airline who can help you
find out if there really is a God!

We regret to inform you, that today's in-flight movie will not be shown
as we forgot to record it from the television. However, for our movie
buffs, we will be flying right next to Kingfisher Airline, where their
movie will be visible from the right side of the cabin window.

There is no smoking allowed in this airplane. Any smoke you see in the
Cabin is only the early warning system on the engines telling us to slow
down!

In order to catch important landmarks, we try to fly as close as
possible. For the best view , if however, we go a little too close, do
let us know. Our enthusiastic co-pilot sometimes flies right through the
landmark!

Kindly be seated, keep your seat in an upright position for take-off and
fasten your seat-belt. For those of you who can't find a seat-belt,
kindly Fasten your own belt to the arm of your seat. And, for those of
you who can't find a seat, do not hesitate to get in touch with a
stewardess who will explain how to fasten yourself to your suitcase.

Also read:
Fixing the Air Deccan website on Firefox
http://nandz.blogspot.com/2007/01/fixing-air-deccan-website-on-firefox.html

On a serious note and that which might provide some clues

Calculation of on-time performance in the U.S and the Department of Transportation code is:
Calculation of on-time performance and codes.
(a) Each reporting carrier shall calculate an on-time performance code in
accordance with this section and as provided in more detail in accounting
and reporting directives issued by the Director, Office of Airline Information.
The calculations shall be performed for each reportable flight, except those scheduled to operate three times or less during a month. In addition, each reporting carrier shall assign an ontime performance code to each of its single plane one-stop or multi-stop flights, or portion thereof, that the carrier holds out to the public through a CRS, the last segment of which is a reportable flight.
(b) The on-time performance code shall be calculated as follows:
(1) Based on reportable flight data provided to the Department, calculate
the percentage of on-time arrivals of each nonstop flight. Calculations shall not include discontinued or extra-section flights for which data are not reported to the Department.
(2) Based upon the on-time performance percentage calculated in paragraph (b)(1) of this section, assign a single digit code to each flight that reflects the percentile of on-time performance achieved by the flight, as set forth in the following table:
ON TIME PERFORMANCE
Code: Percentage
9 ...................................................... 90–100
8 ...................................................... 80–89.9
7 ...................................................... 70–79.9
6 ...................................................... 60–69.9
5 ...................................................... 50–59.9
4 ...................................................... 40–49.9
3 ...................................................... 30–39.9
2 ...................................................... 20–29.9
1 ...................................................... 10–19.9
0 ...................................................... 0–9.9

sri_bom · Member Joined: 22 Dec 2006 Posts: 2365 Location: Singapore

Air Deccan hits it off with Frankfinn

PTI[ THURSDAY, APRIL 05, 2007 03:11:32 AM]

MUMBAI: Going ahead with its outsourcing spree, budget-carrier Air Deccan today tied up with Frankfinn Institute of Airhostesses Training as an exclusive cabin crew partner.

“As per the contract, which is for an initial period of two years, only Frankfinn students will be recruited as cabin crew by the airlines with up to 400 placements guaranteed each year during the contract,” Frankfinn Chairman K S Kohli said.

“It will save us the recruitment costs and also help us earn revenue for the in-flight training we will provide to the students under the agreement,” Air Deccan Managing Director Captain G R Gopinath said here. On being asked about the financial aspects involved in the agreement, Frankfinn CEO said, “We have shelled a lot of money for the in-flight training to be provided by Air Deccan.”

The airlines also plans to outsource pilots in the near future. “Outsourcing helps us save money. We are in talks with some aviation academies to recruit pilots. For catering, we have already signed an agreement with Cafe Coffee Day.

The airlines which claims to have a market share of 21.6 per cent, targets to break-even by December. “I am confident that the airlines will enter profitability by December quarter this year,” Gopinath said.

The no-frills airline, which carried about 5.5 million people, expects to take the number to eight million passengers by the end of its fiscal year in June. The number will further rise to 12 million in the next fiscal, he said.

Air Deccan, whose 80 per cent routes are to non-metro cities, is planning to connnect additional number of smaller cities. “We need to connect the unconnected parts of the country to the metros at low cost fare,” Gopinath said.

“We are in talks with Maharashtra government to add 10 cities on the Air deccan list, he said.The airlines is also starting Delhi-Shimla and Delhi- Surat flights from April 16 and May 1 respectively. It is also planning to link Jamshedpur and Ludhiana to metro cities.

Source: http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/News/News_By_Industry/Transportation/Air_Deccan_hits_it_off_with_Frankfinn/articleshow/1858853.cms