Jet has asked for the bulk of the seats, at 41,797.
This huge demand has raised apprehensions among other carriers, as well as private airports.
Talks between Jet and Etihad, the national carrier of the United Arab Emirates, of which Abu Dhabi is a constituent, have been on for months.
The deal being negotiated is a 24 per cent stake purchase by Etihad in Jet.
Under the current entitlement between India and Abu Dhabi, 13,330 seats are there, with a flexibility of increasing by two per cent.
With 82 flights a week, Indian carriers have exhausted their quota.
With Jet operating 4,285 seats, it is seeking 10 times the entitlement.
Etihad has been operating 62 flights to India and is utilising 11,380 seats.
A senior government official told Business Standard, “On an immediate basis, the Abu Dhabi government has asked for removal of the existing cap of seven weekly frequencies each on Mumbai and Delhi.
“A transfer of the residual entitlement of 995 weekly seats from Mumbai and Kolkata combined to Hyderabad has also been sought.”
On a medium-term basis, apart from seeking an increase in the entitlements to 25,000 weekly seats phased over the next three years, their government has asked for three new points of call, at Pune, Amritsar and Goa, the official added.
On the request of the UAE, the designated airline of Abu Dhabi has been permitted an unutilised capacity entitlement of 980 seats a week to and from Chennai and Thiruvananthapuram, for flights from Hyderabad.
Earlier, Jet had also been granted permission for a code share arrangement with Etihad Airways, to carry each other’s marketing flight codes on their respective services between Indian point of calls and Abu Dhabi.
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