Aircraft import requests to be analysed in-depth: Aviation ministry

New Delhi: With cash-starved domestic airlines turning defiant, the civil aviation ministry is reconfiguring its policies to tame them. In one such move, the ministry is adding an expert in the aircraft acquisition committee to do an in-depth analysis of the import requests by several airlines and operators.
“Currently, all the acquisitions we clear are on the basis of macro numbers of demand and supply. Now, we have decided to do a route or region-wise demand and supply analysis for which the import request is made,” said a senior civil aviation ministry official, who did not want to be identified.
The official added that to facilitate such analysis they have decided to add the economic advisor of the ministry in the aircraft acquisition committee.
17/08/12 Indian Express

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Categories: Foreign Aug 2012, Indian Aviation- In General Aug 2012