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Taking about legislative changes, the minister said the Civil Aviation Ministry is consulting with the Ministry of Home Affairs and the Ministry of Law to amend the Aircraft Act of 1934 and Aircraft Rules of 1937. The proposed changes include a five-year imprisonment for offenders and their placement on a no-fly list.
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The minister highlighted the vast opportunity that the sector presents as India still only has around 3-4 percent penetration.
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Speaking in the Lok Sabha, Scindia also said a new site, Parandur, has been chosen for Chennai's second airport -- a greenfield one -- out of the four sites offered by the Tamil Nadu government.
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The minister also announced that under International UDAN, two new routes of Agartala-Chittagong-Agartala and Imphal-Mandalay-Imphal will be operationalised.
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Against the backdrop of a spate of technical snags suffered by Indian airlines in recent weeks and DGCA curtailing operations of SpiceJet, Kumar stressed that there is no need to panic as none of the events that have been reported/discussed had the potential to cause havoc.
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According to a senior official, the permission is anticipated in the coming weeks and the civil aviation ministry is following up with the home ministry over Campbell Wilson's security clearance for the position of CEO-designate at Air India.
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The plan that had set infrastructure and policy targets for India’s aviation sector had more optics than action on the ground
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Jyotiraditya Scindia will be replacing Hardeep Singh Puri, who had held the post of Civil Aviation Minister since 2019.
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As for Air India, the minister said that the Air India divestment will go through.
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Domestic services were suspended in India due to the coronavirus-induced lockdown and resumed after a gap of two months on May 25.
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"The fact is that we are issuing too many airport passes...I can understand that the airport access is wanted by tourist operators and so and so," said Puri, while launching the biometric-based AEP system on Monday.
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The airlines will be liable to pay Rs 20 lakh in case a person dies on-board or suffers bodily injury only due to the fault of the airline.
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Soon after taking charge, Prabhu held a meeting with senior officials from the ministry, DGCA, AAI, Air India and Pawan Hans, among others. Minister of State for Civil Aviation Minister Jayant Sinha was also present.
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The All India Airlines Retired Personnel Association (AIARPA), which has written the letter, represents nearly 11,000 former employees of Air India.
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Scheduled airlines carried more than 10 crore domestic passengers in the year ended March 2017, an increase of around 19 per cent compared to the same period a year ago.
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Airlines have to apply to the Airports Authority of India to facilitate night landing facility in a particular airport and then process of offering the convenience starts.
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The ambitious Regional Connectivity Scheme (RCS) seeks to connect unserved and under-served airports as well as make flying more affordable. It has also set up the RCS fund which would be utilised for providing viability gap funding to airlines participating in the scheme.
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India's first dedicated heliport built at a cost of Rs 100 crore for flying in and out of Delhi to nearby areas in choppers became operational here today.
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There is tremendous potential for domestic air cargo growth but "somehow the jigsaw puzzle" was never pieced together, Union Minister Ashok Gajapathi Raju said as he rued that currently cargo is only a minuscule part of Indian aviation sector.
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Presently, Wi-Fi services and phone calls are not allowed on flights flying over the Indian airspace.
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The national capital's aerodrome is operated by Delhi International Airport Ltd (DIAL) while that of Bengaluru is run by Bangalore International Airport Ltd (BIAL).
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The remarks of the minister, who emphasised that working difficulties need to be sorted out, come a day after Dubai Airports said Indian airlines operate more number of flights than their Dubai-based counterparts between the two countries despite "competitive slot situation".
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Government was keen on regional connectivity and as part of its plan, 10-15 airports
would be activated by the next year, Civil Aviation Minister P Ashok Gajapathi Raju today said.
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No-frills carrier IndiGo saw its market share climb to 39.8 percent -- the highest for any local airline -- last month. It had a market share of 37.9 percent in June.
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Raju said even though adequate infrastructure is in place, airlines are not flying to many airports in the country. There are 32 airports, under the Airports Authority of India, which are non-functional.
