Praful gives patient hearing to airlines’ problems

New Delhi: Looking for ways to tide over the financial crisis that has affected the civil aviation sector, representatives of private airlines as well as chief of the State-run Air India held detailed discussions with the Union Civil Aviation Minister, Praful Patel, here on Monday.
Coming together under the umbrella of the Federation of Indian Airlines (FIA), the bigwigs of India’s major airlines were closeted in the meeting for more than an hour with Mr. Patel at the Ministry’s headquarters at Rajiv Gandhi Bhavan.
“Both the Civil Aviation Minister and the Secretary were sympathetic to our demands. Our discussions were held in a positive and constructive manner. I hope that the government will look at our difficulties and something will come out in the next four to six weeks,” Vijay Mallya who heads Kingfisher Airlines told reporters.
The meeting was attended by Naresh Goyal, Chairman of Jet Airways, Jeh Wadia of GoAir, Rahul Bhatia and Aditya Ghosh of IndiGo, Sanjay Agrawal of SpiceJet, Arvind Jadhav, Chairman and Managing Director of Air India, and FIA Secretary General Anil Baijal.
11/08/09 The Hindu

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Categories: Indian Aviation- In General Aug 2009