| Aviation en Inde : grève le 18 août |
| Samedi, 01 Août 2009 15:54 | |||
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L'intégralité du communiqué de presse de la FIA du 1er août 2009 Press Release from the Federation of Indian Airlines The decision of private member airlines to suspend operations on August 18 seems to have been grossly misunderstood. The FIA wishes to clarify that this decision is neither a threat nor blackmail nor a desire to pressurize. It is not even intended to cause deliberate inconvenience to esteemed passengers of member airlines of FIA. The FIA is committed to the cause of travelling public. The Indian passenger has been offered a multiplicity of choices, cheaper fares and high quality service. The airlines have no desire to inconvenience those they are in the business to serve. They are merely seeking to be treated fairly. The private airlines provide critical connectivity across India at affordable prices that enable the “Aam Aadmi” to travel by air. Average passenger tariff has come down from Rs. 6000/- to Rs. 3000/- over the past 5 years. It is emphatically denied that member airlines are seeking any charity or bailout from the Government of India. Even though governments in other countries have responded positively in providing financial assistance to airlines in such exceptional circumstances, members of FIA do not wish to burden the government with such demands. However, it is a fact that the Aviation Turbine Fuel (ATF) prices (including the high incidence of taxation in India) are much higher than countries abroad. In addition, member airlines are taxed heavily and are forced to accept high charges (unilaterally decided by airport operators) for airport, landing, parking and navigational services. The depreciation of the Indian rupee against the US dollar has resulted in significantly higher cost of leasing and maintaining aircraft. It is also a fact that airline industry, which was reeling under a global economic recession, had also to face severe decline in passenger traffic after the Mumbai terrorist attack. All this has affected the aviation industry. In this difficult operating environment, all that the member airlines have been asking for almost a year now is to create a level playing field by reducing sales tax on aviation fuel to 4% and operational charges, such as airport, landing, parking and navigation fees be aligned with international levels. When a delegation of FIA members apprised the Hon’ble Prime Minister of India about the problems of the industry in July 2008, he was kind enough to set up a committee under the chairmanship of the Cabinet Secretary, but the industry has not heard anything in the matter thereafter. FIA members are not seeking charity or a bailout. They only wish to emphasize that they would be unable to continue operations, if government agencies and concessionaires keep charging unreasonably high levels of taxation/levies on services provided, at the cost of airline operators, while making the industry operations completely unviable and unsustainable. Member airlines only wish to state that like every other industry, aviation must also be viable and sustainable to be able to serve the nation efficiently on a long term basis. FIA members will only be happy to enter into discussions with government and re-consider their unanimous decision to suspend operations on August 18, if their difficulties are addressed. Federation of Indian Airlines Membres FIA
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Pour faire face à une dépréciation croissante de la roupie face au dollar, à la montée du prix du carburant et à celle des taxes gouvernementales, la FIA (Federation of Indian Airlines) qui compte en ses rangs la plupart des compagnies aériennes indiennes, annonce une grève de l'ensemble de ses membres le 18 août prochain. Cette action, qui pourrait être suspendue en cas d'accord avec le gouvernement, veut inciter ce dernier à réduire la taxation afin d'aider le secteur à surmonter une crise qui le touche particulièrement. Bref une date à éviter absolument pour tout ce qui concerne l'aérien en 
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