New Delhi: India has unveiled its long-awaited aviation policy with a roadmap to support 300 million air travellers in five years and steps to make air travel affordable and convenient. It also recasts the controversial norms on national carriers to flying abroad.
Besides sops to make India a hub for aircraft maintenance, the policy proposes an all-inclusive tariff of Rs 2,500 per ticket for each flying hour to promote regional routes and facilitate more people to travel at lower costs with incentives for airport developers, operators and carriers.
One of the most contentious rules that had split the domestic airlines was the 5/20 norm of five-year operation and a 20-aircraft fleet to qualify to fly overseas. The five-year wait is now done away with, but airlines will need 20 aircraft and fly 20 per cent on domestic routes.
The new policy was approved by a cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi after several years of discussions, following which a revised draft policy was last uploaded by the civil aviation ministry on October 30 last year for comments from stakeholders.
Civil Aviation Minister Pusapati Ashok Gajapathi Raju said it was for the first time that India has an integrated civil aviation policy that has been crafted after some 450 responses and talks with all stakeholders -- airlines, airport operators and informal consultations among ministers.
15/06/16 IANS/New Kerala
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Besides sops to make India a hub for aircraft maintenance, the policy proposes an all-inclusive tariff of Rs 2,500 per ticket for each flying hour to promote regional routes and facilitate more people to travel at lower costs with incentives for airport developers, operators and carriers.
One of the most contentious rules that had split the domestic airlines was the 5/20 norm of five-year operation and a 20-aircraft fleet to qualify to fly overseas. The five-year wait is now done away with, but airlines will need 20 aircraft and fly 20 per cent on domestic routes.
The new policy was approved by a cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi after several years of discussions, following which a revised draft policy was last uploaded by the civil aviation ministry on October 30 last year for comments from stakeholders.
Civil Aviation Minister Pusapati Ashok Gajapathi Raju said it was for the first time that India has an integrated civil aviation policy that has been crafted after some 450 responses and talks with all stakeholders -- airlines, airport operators and informal consultations among ministers.
15/06/16 IANS/New Kerala
