New Delhi: India's airlines appear to have dropped their opposition to scrapping the current norms for operating international flights and have sought greater leniency in the proposed system of earning domestic flying credits to determine eligibility to fly overseas.
Resistance by Jet Airways Indigo, SpiceJet and Air India to the removal of the eligibility norms to fly abroad seems to have died out.
None of them present at a meeting last Wednesday opposed the move to replace the minimum requirement of five years of operations and 20 aircraft, known as the 5/20 rule, sources who attended told ET.
The carriers, however, sought more flexible norms for the new regime based on credits earned for flying local routes, classified into three categories. Continuation of the 5/20 model would have affected Vistara and AirAsia, which started operating flights in India recently.
23/03/15 Mihir Mishra/Economic Times
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Resistance by Jet Airways Indigo, SpiceJet and Air India to the removal of the eligibility norms to fly abroad seems to have died out.
None of them present at a meeting last Wednesday opposed the move to replace the minimum requirement of five years of operations and 20 aircraft, known as the 5/20 rule, sources who attended told ET.
The carriers, however, sought more flexible norms for the new regime based on credits earned for flying local routes, classified into three categories. Continuation of the 5/20 model would have affected Vistara and AirAsia, which started operating flights in India recently.
23/03/15 Mihir Mishra/Economic Times
