Key civil aviation policy meet on August 14

New Delhi: The Group of Ministers (GoM) constituted to review the new civil aviation policy will take up among other things, allowing of private Indian carriers, with three-years experience in the domestic sector, to fly abroad.
The 10-member GoM, headed by the External Affairs minister Pranab Mukherjee, will have its first meeting on August 14.
According to a Cabinet note moved to the GoM earlier this year, the government is looking at lowering the eligibility criteria for Indian carriers to fly on international route from the existing five years to three years.
The GoM will also take up other important issues pertaining to the aviation sector like easing of rules for Indian airlines to fly abroad, creation of merchant airports, corporatisation of air traffic control system and sharing of airspace between civil and defence aircraft.
12/08/07 Anirban Chowdhury & Ashish Sinha/Business Standard

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