Vistara beats the fog, achieves 89% OTP in first month of operation

New Delhi: Newly-launched Vistara airline today claimed that it surpassed all domestic carriers ncluding budget airline IndiGo in the on-time performance (OTP) in January, with 89.35 percent of its flight arriving and departing on their scheduled time. The performance was achieved in a period which was of peak fog and low visibility, it said.[caption id=“attachment_2038483” align=“alignleft” width=“380”]  A Vistara aircraft. [/caption] “Vistara’s on-time performance in the very first month of its operations stood as high as 89.35 percent,” the airline said today. “We are glad that starting from our first month of operation and even during the peak fog season we were able to deliver a record OTP,” the airline said. According to the DGCA statistics for January, released last week, while IndiGo had an on-time performance of 73.3 percent in January, another budget carrier GoAir clocked an over all 65.8 percent OTP in the reporting month. SpiceJet, which was plagued with financial problems during the reporting month, performed worst in terms of maintaining its flight schedule with less than half (49.6 percent) of its flight either arriving or departing on time in January, according to the DGCA. While Jet Airways reported 63.7 percent OTP during the month, national carrier Air India recorded only 52.1 percent on-time performance in January 2015. Vistara, which is operated jointly by the Tata Group and Singapore Airlines under a 51:49 joint venture, had launched its operations with flights from three cities-Delhi, Mumbai and Ahmadabad early January. The airline, which has five planes in the fleet, last week added Goa in its network and plans to launch its services to Hyderabad from 1 March. PTI