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Delhi to cut back on foreign carriers grabbing Indian customers
FOREIGN air carriers seek wider landing lights in India, but allowing this hurts domestic carriers, said a senior official from the Civil Aviation Ministry, reports the Press Trust of India.
Signalling a major shift in granting air traffic rights, the government is looking at restricting the number of landing points for overseas airlines regardless of their seat entitlements.
Renewed protectionism is prompted by Gulf carriers cornering a large chunk of international air traffic from India because of having landing rights across a number of airports in the country.
A senior Civil Aviation Ministry official said it was looking at restricting the ports of call given to foreign airlines under bilateral rights, while remaining flexible on seat entitlements.
The bilateral rights allow carriers of two countries to operate a fixed number of seats to a limited number of destinations in each other's territory.
India has Air Service Agreements (ASA) with 109 countries covering aspects relating to the number of flights, seats, landing points and code-share. The utilisation of bilateral rights at any point of time differs from country to country and is subject to periodic re-negotiation.
As per the draft aviation policy, the government plans to liberalise the regime of bilateral rights leading to greater ease of doing business and wider choice to passengers.
Signalling a major shift in granting air traffic rights, the government is looking at restricting the number of landing points for overseas airlines regardless of their seat entitlements.
Renewed protectionism is prompted by Gulf carriers cornering a large chunk of international air traffic from India because of having landing rights across a number of airports in the country.
A senior Civil Aviation Ministry official said it was looking at restricting the ports of call given to foreign airlines under bilateral rights, while remaining flexible on seat entitlements.
The bilateral rights allow carriers of two countries to operate a fixed number of seats to a limited number of destinations in each other's territory.
India has Air Service Agreements (ASA) with 109 countries covering aspects relating to the number of flights, seats, landing points and code-share. The utilisation of bilateral rights at any point of time differs from country to country and is subject to periodic re-negotiation.
As per the draft aviation policy, the government plans to liberalise the regime of bilateral rights leading to greater ease of doing business and wider choice to passengers.
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