Washington: The US has said that it was committed to work with India to help it get back the Category 1 aviation safety rating "as soon as possible", a day after Washington downgraded India's ranking, bringing it below Pakistan and at par with countries like Ghana and Bangladesh.
"Both the US and India are fully committed to restoring India to a Category 1 rating as soon as possible," State Department Deputy Spokesperson Marie Harf told reporters here.
"There is currently a Federal Aviation Authority (FAA team in India, in part to discuss how to go about doing just that," she said yesterday.
"When a foreign country's civil aviation authority has international flights into the US, the FAA is required to periodically evaluate whether that CAA is overseeing the safety of its international civil aviation operations according to the ICAO standards," she said.
01/02/14 PTI/Economic Times
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"Both the US and India are fully committed to restoring India to a Category 1 rating as soon as possible," State Department Deputy Spokesperson Marie Harf told reporters here.
"There is currently a Federal Aviation Authority (FAA team in India, in part to discuss how to go about doing just that," she said yesterday.
"When a foreign country's civil aviation authority has international flights into the US, the FAA is required to periodically evaluate whether that CAA is overseeing the safety of its international civil aviation operations according to the ICAO standards," she said.
01/02/14 PTI/Economic Times
