The Union government will hold a meeting on Wednesday to finalise the draft civil aviation policy.
Sources said Union Civil Aviation Minister Ashok Gajapathi Raju, Minister of State Civil Aviation Mahesh Sharma, Union Civil Aviation secretary R.N. Choubey and other senior ministry officials will meet on Wednesday morning to finalise the policy.
The ministry is expected to take decisions on key issues including the much-talked about ?5/20 rule’ which sets the norms for airlines to fly abroad.
The Union government had released the draft civil aviation policy for public comments in October this year. After receiving comments from the public and the stakeholders including airlines, airport operators, ground handling agencies etc, the civil aviation ministry had held several rounds of internal discussion on the draft policy.
According to sources, all the airlines including incumbents such as IndiGo and Jet Airways and new airlines AirAsia India and Vistara had opposed the government's proposal on replacing the 5/20 rule with a credit based system.
23/12/15 Somesh Jha/The Hindu
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Sources said Union Civil Aviation Minister Ashok Gajapathi Raju, Minister of State Civil Aviation Mahesh Sharma, Union Civil Aviation secretary R.N. Choubey and other senior ministry officials will meet on Wednesday morning to finalise the policy.
The ministry is expected to take decisions on key issues including the much-talked about ?5/20 rule’ which sets the norms for airlines to fly abroad.
The Union government had released the draft civil aviation policy for public comments in October this year. After receiving comments from the public and the stakeholders including airlines, airport operators, ground handling agencies etc, the civil aviation ministry had held several rounds of internal discussion on the draft policy.
According to sources, all the airlines including incumbents such as IndiGo and Jet Airways and new airlines AirAsia India and Vistara had opposed the government's proposal on replacing the 5/20 rule with a credit based system.
23/12/15 Somesh Jha/The Hindu
