As the demand has dropped off a cliff around the world, people are reducing, or stopping to fly altogether. In the wake of this, I am still not sure why many flights have 40%- 50% loads as per the anecdotal data I am getting from pilots as well as passengers on these aircraft. With airlines having made the call to reduce schedules and so on, no Indian airline is coming forward to announce a full/partial grounding.

Due to this, at LFAL, we started our own efforts to keep a tab on aircraft utilisation and reduction in capacity. Remember, reduction in capacity can happen in two ways. Many airlines just park some aircraft and use others. In India, many airlines don’t park aircraft but just reduce utilisation as well. For instance, if an aircraft did 5-6 sectors a day, they would just do 2-3 with it sometimes.

For this effort, we have onboard Harsh Agarwal as well, who runs a very informative Twitter account on Indian aviation, who helped us with the compilation.

I am still compiling the data and formatting it, but I thought I would start to put out some of the data we have ready as of March 23, 2020, 3 PM.

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GoAir: 77% Fleet Not Being Utilized

GoAir has a fleet size of 56 as on March 23, 2020, all of these a mix of A320ceo/neo aircraft. It turns out, on March 23, 2020, the airline has 43 of these aircraft not being used for more than one days.

Aircraft	Type	Last Flight Operated On	Parking Airport	Last Operated Route	Last Flight Operated Number
VT-WAK	A320ceo	March 17, 2020	CNN	BOM-CNN	G8-383
VT-WAL	A320ceo	March 18, 2020	CNN	BOM-CNN	G8-383
VT-GOJ	A320ceo	February 12, 2020	VO95	BLR-VO95	VTGOJ
VT-GOK	A320ceo	March 20, 2020	HYD	DEL-HYD	G8-425
VT-GOM	A320ceo	March 17, 2020	DEL	AMD-DEL	G8-720
VT-GON	A320ceo	March 19, 2020	DEL	BOM-DEL	G8-345
VT-GOO	A320ceo	March 17, 2020	DEL	BOM-DEL	G8-643
VT-GOP	A320ceo	March 18, 2020	BLR	IXZ-BLR	G8-803
VT-GOQ	A320ceo	February 24, 2020	VO95	BLR-VO95	VTGOQ
VT-GOR	A320ceo	March 18, 2020	BOM	MAA-BOM	G8-302
VT-WGA	A320neo	March 19, 2020	DEL	GOI-DEL	G8-195
VT-WGG	A320neo	March 14, 2020	DEL	PAT-DEL	G8-144
VT-WGY	A320neo	February 18, 2020	AMD	BLR-AMD	G8-801
VT-WGZ	A320neo	March 13, 2020	DEL	VNS-DEL	G8-403
VT-WJA	A320neo	March 16, 2020	DEL	PNQ-DEL	G8-2541
VT-WJB	A320neo	March 18, 2020	DEL	IXB-DEL	G8-851
VT-WJD	A320neo	March 21, 2020	CCU	PNQ-CCU	G8-394
VT-WJE	A320neo	March 21, 2020	BLR	DEL-BLR	G8-557
VT-WJG	A320neo	January 19, 2020	DEL	BOM-DEL	G8-345
VT-WJQ	A320neo	March 19, 2020	HYD	CCU-HYD	G8-121
VT-WGB	A320neo	March 20, 2020	DEL	PAT-DEL	G8-132
VT-WGD	A320neo	March 20, 2020	DEL	PAT-DEL	G8-150
VT-WGE	A320neo	March 19, 2020	DEL	AMD-DEL	G8-714
VT-WGF	A320neo	March 20, 2020	CCU	JAI-CCU	G8-702
VT-WGH	A320neo	March 21, 2020	BOM	IXR-BOM	G8-484
VT-WGI	A320neo	March 21, 2020	DEL	PAT-DEL	G8-2512
VT-WGJ	A320neo	March 21, 2020	HYD	LKO-HYD	G8-559
VT-WGM	A320neo	March 20, 2020	DEL	AMD-DEL	G8-714
VT-WGN	A320neo	March 21, 2020	HYD	CCU-HYD	G8-125
VT-WGO	A320neo	March 21, 2020	HYD	PAT-HYD	G8-516
VT-WGP	A320neo	March 21, 2020	BLR	LKO-BLR	G8-806
VT-WGR	A320neo	March 21, 2020	CCU	LKO-CCU	G8-163
VT-WGU	A320neo	March 21, 2020	BLR	DEL-BLR	G8-124
VT-WGV	A320neo	March 21, 2020	BOM	LKO-BOM	G8-396
VT-WGW	A320neo	March 21, 2020	BOM	DEL-BOM	G8-429
VT-WJH	A320neo	March 21, 2020	MAA	AMD-MAA	G8-912
VT-WJI	A320neo	March 21, 2020	MAA	BOM-MAA	G8-303
VT-WJJ	A320neo	March 21, 2020	BOM	LKO-BOM	G8-402
VT-WJO	A320neo	March 21, 2020	CCU	PNQ-CCU	G8-394
VT-WJP	A320neo	March 21, 2020	DEL	BLR-DEL	G8-120
VT-WJR	A320neo	March 21, 2020	DEL	PNQ-DEL	G8-176
VT-WOS	A320ceo	March 21, 2020	VOBG	VOBL-VOBG	G8-557
VT-WAG	A320ceo	November 3, 2019	HYD	DEL-HYD	G8-7029 (ferry flight)

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Vistara: 42.5% Fleet Not Being Utilized

Vistara has a fleet size of 41 as on March 23, 2020. 33 of these aircraft are A320ceo/neo and 7 are Boeing 737 aircraft. 1 Boeing 787 is not included in this assessment as it is in the process of induction. 17 of these aircraft have not been used for a day or more.

Aircraft	Type	Last Flight Operated On	Parking Airport	Last Operated Route	Last Flight Operated Number
VT-ATV	A320neo	March 22, 2020	Mumbai	GOI-BOM	UK910
VT-TNC	A320neo	March 22, 2020	Mumbai	BLR-BOM	UK864
VT-TNF	A320neo	March 22, 2020	Delhi	PAT-DEL	UK716
VT-TNI	A320neo	March 22, 2020	Mumbai	HYD-BOM	UK876
VT-TNM	A320neo	March 22, 2020	Chandigarh	DEL-IXC	UK637
VT-TNQ	A320neo	March 22, 2020	Mumbai	DEL-BOM	UK955
VT-TNR	A320neo	March 22, 2020	Bengaluru	BOM-BLR	UK865
VT-TNW	A320neo	March 21, 2020	Bengaluru	DEL-BLR	UK813
VT-TNY	A320neo	Brand New
VT-TTG	A320ceo	March 20, 2020	Hyderabad	DEL-HYD	UK871
VT-TTI	A320ceo	March 22, 2020	Chennai	DEL-MAA	UK837
VT-TTJ	A320ceo	March 19, 2020	Delhi	BOM-DEL	UK994
VT-TTK	A320ceo	March 22, 2020	Delhi	IXC-DEL	UK638
VT-TTL	A320ceo	March 22, 2020	Delhi	PNQ-DEL	UK992
VT-TTN	A320ceo	March 21, 2020	Delhi	RPR-DEL	UK978
VT-TGG	B737-800 NG	March 22, 2020	Mumbai	GOI-BOM	UK862
VT-TGI	B737-800 NG	March 22, 2020	Delhi	BOM-DEL	UK986

Apart from this, Vistara has also vastly reduced the utilisation cycle of their aircraft, sometimes using them only for one sector in a day.

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Airlines in India may not be talking about a grounding, but they are actually leaving aircraft all over the place, to be used later. March 22, 2020, has accelerated this grounding because people finally stopped getting out of their house.

Check back at this page later to find out about some of the other airlines which have grounded their aircraft.

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