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Saturday, Nov 16, 2002
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Airlines Pvt airlines on global routes unlikely now Ashwini Phadnis
NEW DELHI, Nov. 15 ACCORDING to senior officials of the Ministry of Civil Aviation the suggestion in the Tenth Plan document of allowing private sector domestic airlines on international routes is merely the stated policy objective of the Government. "The Tenth Plan document merely outlines the stated objectives and goals and what the Government feels should happen. As yet there is no time-frame for it to be implemented. It could happen in the next five minutes, five hours, five days, five weeks or five years," official sources told Business Line. The inclusion of the recommendation in the Plan statement allowing private airlines into the international arena in the Plan document is attributed to assurances which were communicated to the Planning Commission during the previous dispensation in the Ministry for Civil Aviation, sources said. The Tenth Plan document was approved at a Cabinet meeting chaired by the Prime Minister, Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee, held here at the end of October this year. "The agenda for the Plan meeting was given to the Ministry of Civil Aviation only on the evening before the meeting was actually held. The papers could not therefore be thoroughly scrutinised. However, the Minister for Civil Aviation is to shortly meet with officials of the Planning Commission to communicate the thinking of the Ministry," officials said. It is interesting to note that the draft civil aviation policy, which has been in the making for some time now, categorically states that the first right of refusal for flying on the international sector rests with the two state-owned airlines, Indian Airlines and Air India. Currently, only AI and IA are the designated foreign airlines of India and the two airlines provide connectivity to different parts of the globe including Europe, Far and Middle East and the US.
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