Lufthansa won't fly Airbus 380 to Mumbai for now

Mumbai airport's failure to allot Lufthansa the 2am time slot it had wanted for its proposed Airbus 380 operations spurred the German carrier to defer its plan to fly the world's largest commercial airliner to the city. TOI reported last week that Lufthansa wanted the 2am slot, which Mumbai International Airport (Pvt) Ltd (MIAL) has already given to Emirates.

A statement issued by Lufthansa said: "As of now, Lufthansa will not fly the A380 on the Frankfurt-Mumbai route this winter schedule. Due to the infrastructure at Mumbai airport, the available time slots for an A380 on this route were not very favourable, as they did not coincide with important connections at our hub in Frankfurt.

We will therefore fly the Frankfurt-Mumbai route daily with a Boeing 747-400..." Since the constrained Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport (CSIA) has only one parking bay big enough for the A380, and T2 has only one twin-level aerobridge for the big bird, MIAL had told Lufthansa to operate either at 10 pm or 4 am as the midnight slot has been allotted to Singapore Airlines A380.

Lufthansa wanted the 2am slot as this flight would reach Frankfurt in time for transit flyers to change planes to Europe and the Americas. Operating at 10pm would mean long transit time in Frankfurt, thus losing out to other European carriers that would offer shorter waiting slots. And operating the A380 from Mumbai at 4am would mean missing connecting flights from Frankfurt.

The official of an Indian airline said this shows how desperately Mumbai needs another airport. "CSIA is bursting at its seams," said the official. "Mumbai's connectivity with the world will suffer due to the failure in having Navi Mumbai airport up and running in time." Meanwhile, Emirates is also not happy with the close slot it shares with Singapore Airlines (SIA). Every day, officials of the carrier hope that SIA A380 takes off before Emirates touches down.

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