Flag carrier Air India, which merged sister airline Indian Airlines with itself last year but continues to use separate nomenclature for flight bookings, would switch to a common code in the next 12 months, the Lok Sabha was informed on Thursday.
"As a merged entity, it is proposed to operate all flights under a common code. Air India is currently in the process of imeplementing a combined new state-of-the-art PSS. All erstwhile Air India and Indian Airlines flights will be migrated to this new PSS under a common code," Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel said in a written reply.
The PSS and the common code are scheduled to be implemented within the next 12 months.
Both the airlines at present use the thier own legacy Passenger Service Systems (PSS) as they are not compatible and use of common code is not possible as of now, he said.
The erstwhile Air India continues to use International Air Transport Association (IATA) code 'AI' and erstwhile Indian Airlines continues to use IATA code 'IC'.
Replying to another question, the minister said that Air India has discontinued operations to Lahore, Seoul, Dar-E-Sallam, Birmingham and Los Angeles and has also rationalised its flights in the domestic sector.
The restructuring of the international and domestic routes and cutting down capacity by nearly 10-15 per cent is expected to result in savings of Rs 1,200 crore per annum
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