New Delhi: The Government is open to the two state-owned airlines - Air India and Indian Airlines - examining various options for setting up separate cargo airlines including tying up with the private sector, the Secretary, Civil Aviation, Ajay Prasad, said.
"The airlines can look at leasing aircraft, forming joint venture companies or running the cargo airline as a separate unit," said Prasad on the sidelines of the `India cargo summit' that had been organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry Indian Airlines plans to convert its fleet of Boeing 737-200 aircraft that are currently being operated by the 100 per cent subsidiary, Alliance Air into freighter aircraft. Similarly, AI is to convert the Airbus A-310 into freighter aircraft.
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