Private airlines challenge ground handling policy

New Delhi: India’s major private airlines have approached the Delhi High Court seeking quashing of the new ground handling policy framed by the government.
The new policy restricts the private airlines to undertake self ground handling at all the metropolitan airports - Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, Bangalore and Hyderabad. These services include passenger and baggage handling activities at the airport terminals and traffic service including the passenger check-in. The other ground handling services includes aircraft handling, loading and unloading, flight operations, surface transport etc. These services are proposed to be undertaken by the airline operator or subsidiary companies of the national carrier - National Aviation Company of India Ltd. or their joint ventures specialized in ground handling services. The policy also restricts the foreign airlines and the private independent ground handing service providers to undertake self ground handling and ground handling at joint user Defence airfields. The new policy is to be implemented by January 2011.
30/11/10 Abhijit Pandey/Law et al. news

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Categories: Airports Dec 2010, Indian Aviation- In General Dec 2010