Chandigarh: The Indian Air Force (IAF) has crashed the foreign dreams of two private airlines from the city airport, unwilling to give the go-ahead to international flights from the terminal on technical grounds.
Last month, Director General Civil Aviation (DGCA) accorded permission to Indigo and Spice Jet to operate international flights for Dubai from the existing terminal of the Chandigarh airport subject to approval of the ministry of defence (MOD). The MOD, which controls the airbase, had sought opinion from the air headquarters. The permission was required because IAF handles the technical area like runway and air traffic control (ATC).
Sources confirmed to TOI that the air force authorities expressed its inability to handle international flights on account of its tight schedule of handling its operational flights from the local airbase sorties for the strategically important Ladakh area.
Read news in full 26/10/13 Ajay Sura/Times of India
Sunday 3 November 2013
No wings for foreign flights
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