Domestic carriers such as Jet Airways and Kingfisher Airlines, which are reducing their fleet sizes, may also have to surrender aircraft parking slots at airports. As most of the metro airports are congested due to increase in air traffic, the move will help in allotting parking slots to other carriers, a senior official in the civil aviation ministry said.
Airport Authority of India (AAI) has proposed that airlines must surrender parking slots if they sell or lease their aircraft so that airports can accommodate other airlines, especially budget carriers, he said requesting anonymity.