No revision of foreign route flying policy: Patel

New Delhi: Civil aviation minister Praful Patel said there will be no new “formula” in civil aviation policy to supersede the five-year mandatory flying experience rule for domestic airlines before they can fly international routes.
Kingfisher Airlines (together with the budget airline Air Deccan) has been lobbying hard to get the rules relaxed, while Jet Airways (including subsidiary JetLite) and Air India, the only two carriers flying aboard currently, are against any such move because they too had to comply with the rules. A group of ministers (GoM) will be reviewing the civil aviation policy in their second meeting on 1 November after the first meeting in August remained inconclusive. A second meeting of the GoM set for 20 September had to be postponed because finance minister P. Chidambaram, who is one of the 12 ministers reviewing the policy, was unavailable.
12/10/07 Tarun Shukla/Livemint

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