Easier overseas flying norms for airlines

New Delhi: Domestic start-up airlines may not have to wait for completion of five years of operations before flying abroad.
The civil aviation ministry is planning to approach the group of ministers (GoM) with a fresh proposal — to fix a date like January 1, 2010, to allow these airlines to fly abroad, without any requirement of any mandatory number of years in operation.
GoM examining the issue has so far not responded positively to aviation ministry’s earlier proposal for a case to case approval for airlines to fly overseas. "There is a general impression that this change was being pursued mainly for the benefit of about three-year-old Kingfisher which has now got the eligibility to fly abroad from August after tie-up with Deccan that completes five years in August. Once that happened, we stopped pursuing this cause. This impression needs to be corrected as the ministry is genuinely in favour of relaxed rules for all airlines to go abroad," said highly-placed sources.
28/04/08 Saurabh Sinha/Times of India

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Categories: Foreign Apr 2008, Indian Aviation- In General Apr 2008, New Apr 2008