5/20 norm for airlines to go |
India`s minister of state for aviation Mahesh Sharma said that he has firmed up three to four options, one of which will replace this controversial rule under which an Indian airline must be five years old and have 20 planes in its fleet to start overseas flights. "5/20 is going. In place of that, we will have something like 0/10 or 0/20 or 1/10 or 2/20. One of these options will be chosen very shortly. We are very close to the final decision, he added. The government is also going to ensure that new airlines (which benefit from removal of 5/20) do not compromise on providing domestic connectivity. The government plans to completely remove the "age clause" and make it mandatory for airlines to have a minimum fleet of 10 or 20 to be eligible to go abroad. The route dispersal guidelines (RDG), under which a certain percentage of flights deployed on metro routes have to be flown in remote and unprofitable sectors in J&K, northeast and Port Blair, will remain. This is to recall that old airlines know they can`t beat the new airlines of Tata so they are coming up with hurdles.
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