New Delhi: The government plans to roll out new guidelines for regional
and remote air connectivity by end of the year, a senior civil aviation
ministry official told FE on Wednesday. While new airlines like
Tata-SIA's Vistara and AirAsia India will likely be permitted to start
overseas operations in return for meeting local obligations, the broad
policy outline is expected to see little changes from the draft
guidelines that has already come under sharp criticism from domestic
carriers like Jet Airways, GoAir and Spicejet.
“We plan to announce the new regional route policy very soon. The target is to unveil it before December-end. We have received all the suggestions from the stakeholders, but it may not be possible to incorporate all the views,” the ministry official said.
Announced in August, the draft guidelines on remote and regional area air connectivity mark a major shift in policy by mandating domestic airlines to match capacity on regional/remote routes with that deployed on a new category of 30 trunk routes by end-2016. This would force large airlines to enter into code-share with air charter operators who fly small 7 to 20 seater aircraft.
Read news in full 09/10/14 Roudra Bhattacharya/Financial Express
“We plan to announce the new regional route policy very soon. The target is to unveil it before December-end. We have received all the suggestions from the stakeholders, but it may not be possible to incorporate all the views,” the ministry official said.
Announced in August, the draft guidelines on remote and regional area air connectivity mark a major shift in policy by mandating domestic airlines to match capacity on regional/remote routes with that deployed on a new category of 30 trunk routes by end-2016. This would force large airlines to enter into code-share with air charter operators who fly small 7 to 20 seater aircraft.
Read news in full 09/10/14 Roudra Bhattacharya/Financial Express
No comments:
Post a Comment