India to ink pact with EU for better connectivity

New Delhi: India's connectivity with Europe for both passengers and cargo flights is all set to improve dramatically.
India will sign a horizontal agreement with European Union (EU) at Marseilles during PM Manmohan Singh's visit to France on Tuesday that would allow European carriers to operate from anywhere in the continent to India. This deal would, for example, allow British Airways to have flights from Berlin to India or Lufthansa could fly to India from London.
While this deal is being signed to ensure that India complies with EU's requirement of barrier-free trade for European firms, the former is going to push for some of its long-standing demands. EU has accepted demands that include Indian airlines be able to operate cargo flights to Europe; issue tickets for multi-modal transport within continent; also have code sharing with European carriers and most importantly have no restriction on number of points they operate to in Europe.
29/09/08 Saurabh Sinha/Times of India

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