Representatives of 150 non-scheduled airline operators, including large corporates such as Jindal Group, Tata Group's Taj Aviation, Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Commercial Dealers and the Oberoi Group, met senior DGCA officials on Monday to lobby for time, after the regulator maintained that all of them will have to apply afresh for licences to fly abroad.
At the meeting, held in the DGCA office in Delhi, non-scheduled operators also lobbied for lifting of the August 21 order banning all their international flights, which they were told was the outcome of an ongoing audit by International Civil Aviation Authority (ICAO), a United Nations agency.
"We were told that a new procedure, involving a 250-page international manual, is to be followed, and till such time we will be grounded from flying to international destinations," Business Aircraft Operators Association (BAOA) head Rohit Kapur said.
Kapur also told DGCA officials that corporates should not be stopped from flying abroad while scrutiny of the new set of approvals is on. "Million dollar deals and medical evacuations can be jeopardised by this decision," he pointed out.
26/08/13 Aditya Anand/Mumbai Mirror
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At the meeting, held in the DGCA office in Delhi, non-scheduled operators also lobbied for lifting of the August 21 order banning all their international flights, which they were told was the outcome of an ongoing audit by International Civil Aviation Authority (ICAO), a United Nations agency.
"We were told that a new procedure, involving a 250-page international manual, is to be followed, and till such time we will be grounded from flying to international destinations," Business Aircraft Operators Association (BAOA) head Rohit Kapur said.
Kapur also told DGCA officials that corporates should not be stopped from flying abroad while scrutiny of the new set of approvals is on. "Million dollar deals and medical evacuations can be jeopardised by this decision," he pointed out.
26/08/13 Aditya Anand/Mumbai Mirror
