After Maharashtra, now Delhi govt reduces VAT on Aviation Turbine Fuel amid West Asia crisis
The aviation sector in the country is under immense stress due to rising operational costs amid the ongoing West Asia crisis.
The aviation sector in the country is under immense stress due to rising operational costs amid the ongoing West Asia crisis.
The Indian airlines have asked the government for urgent help in view of the rising aviation turbine fuel (ATF) prices, and said the industry is under extreme stress and are on verge of closing down or stopping its operations.
The advisory, effective immediately and valid till March 28, comes as US-Israel strikes on Iran and Tehran's retaliatory measures create what the regulator calls a "high-risk environment" for civil aviation
New aviation norms ask airlines to improve transparency, display passenger rights widely and adopt uniform policies as India’s fast-growing air travel market sees rising passenger volumes.
A major controversy has erupted over the translation of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's speech at the inaugural function of the Vizhinjam International Deepwater Multipurpose Seaport on Friday.
In the wake of the closure of Pakistani airspace for Indian airlines on Thursday evening, the Ministry of Civil Aviation has issued an advisory to airlines to implement passenger handling measures to ensure continued passenger comfort, safety, and regulatory compliance.
Merging two airlines into one is a task fraught with risk, as Air India and Indian Airlines learnt to their discomfiture more than a decade and a half ago when a merger was forced on them by then Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel, overriding concerns voiced, including by this newspaper, that the scheme was hare-brained.
The DGCA said that the inspection has been ordered as a precautionary measure after Alaska Airlines mishap.
The fall of Air India has coincided with the rise of private airlines. While the behemoth, hamstrung by bureaucracy, could not match the agility of smaller players, crony capitalism also played an important part in Air India's downfall. This is hardly surprising; State enterprises offering consumer services like BSNL and MTNL are in a similar position for similar reasons.
Pakistan earlier in the day lifted the ban on Indian flights that were not allowed to use a majority of the country's airspace since the Balakot air strikes in February.
