India to mull increase in Qatar airline seats

India is reportedly poised to increase Qatar Airways' entitlement of airline seats for travel from Doha to the South Asian country.
Qatar is said to have sought to increase its weekly quota of seats to 72,600 from the current 24,800, which was nearly exhausted.
"Qatar would be the next country with whom we will revise the bilateral air service agreement," a senior official of the civil aviation ministry said in comments published in Indian daily Economic Times.
"We are just negotiating the final number for the enhancement in weekly seats, and it should be done soon."
The unnamed official did not give a timeline for the pact, the newspaper added.
Qatar Airways is the fifth largest carrier of India's international traffic, with nearly four percent share of the 45 million passengers travelling to and from India in 2012-13, according to data from Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation.
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