New Delhi: The jury is still out on the real winner of the air services bilateral treaty that India and Dubai signed recently.
The Indian side is satisfied that after years it was finally able to convince Dubai to allow gauge conversion.
That is, permitting Indian carriers to fly small aircraft from various cities in India to Dubai and then transferring flyers on to larger aircraft to fly them to any part of the globe.
The latest agreement states that gauge conversion is allowed in the territory of the UAE, which many in the Indian side are also interpreting to mean that a domestic carrier can change aircraft not only at the existing Dubai International Airport, but also at the new Dubai Central Al Makhtoum Airport.
However, currently, only Air India and Jet Airways have a mixed fleet of large and small aircraft. So only they stand to benefit from the latest relaxation, as a large volume of Indian outbound traffic is to the UK, Canada and the US, and these routes require large aircraft.
Read News in full 02/03/14 Ashwini Phadnis/Business Line
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