US civil aviation delegation in India

New Delhi: The Indo-US nuclear deal may be all but dead but civil aviation cooperation between India and the US is well and alive. A high-level team from the United States Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) is currently on a visit to India, during which delegation members met officials of the directorate-general of civil aviation (DGCA) and studied the aviation systems of two airlines, state-owned carrier Air India and private airline Kingfisher Airlines.
The FAA delegation visited Mumbai on Wednesday where it met top Air India officials and on Thursday, the delegation met top officials of the Kingfisher Airlines.
Officials of both the airlines acquainted the FAA delegation with the working of their airlines. A top DGCA official confirmed the visit of the FAA delegation and said that it wanted to "study the working and systems of the DGCA".
Both the civil aviation ministry and DGCA officials were tight-lipped about details of the visit. FAA officials based in India were also unavailable for comment.
08/05/08 Sridhar Kumaraswami/Howrah News Service

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Categories: Foreign May 2008, Indian Aviation- In General May 2008