{"id":35684,"date":"2018-11-01T11:24:31","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T05:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=35684"},"modified":"2018-11-01T11:24:31","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T05:54:31","slug":"ease-norms-for-airlines-to-fly-abroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/ease-norms-for-airlines-to-fly-abroad\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Ease norms for airlines to fly abroad\u2019:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-business\/ease-norms-for-airlines-to-fly-abroad\/article19477461.ece\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2018Ease norms for airlines to fly abroad\u2019<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Context:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The economic survey has asked the government to build airline hubs in India which could compete with the hubs in the UAE and South East Asia that were taking away Indian traffic to the US and Europe from domestic carriers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Introduction:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The second volume of the Economic Survey 2016-17 released on Friday.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has also recommended &#8220;committed action plan on divestment of Air India to enhance its operational and management efficiency&#8221;.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The Survey has suggested a mix of protectionism for domestic airlines and liberal norms for flying abroad to bolster their share in international air traffic.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Key points:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As per the survey estimates about 38% people fly in and out of India through Indian carriers as per estimates for January-March 2017.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Survey highlights:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0Indian domestic airlines have a very low share in international traffic to and from India<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The Survey said that the government should focus on building its own aviation hubs as \u201cIndia is an advantageously placed in terms of geographic location as Dubai or Singapore.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It noted that the capacity entitlement between Dubai and India have increased sixfold between 2003 and 2017.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0It increased nine-fold in the case of Oman and 12-fold in the case of Qatar.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0The Survey pointed out that the o\/20 rule to allow for overseas operations should be further diluted.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In its 2016 policy, the government had diluted the contentious \u20185\/20 rule\u2019 that required an Indian airline to have five years of domestic flying experience and 20 aircraft in its fleet before it could fly to overseas destinations.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the present norm, known as the 0\/20 rule, a domestic airline needs to deploy at least 20 planes in the domestic sector before getting the right to fly on international routes from India.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Reasons:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Factors like foreign airlines utilizing the sixth freedom of the air, expansion of capacity entitlements under bilateral air service agreements with foreign countries, lower utilization of India\u2019s own capacity entitlement, the 0\/20 rule and fleet constraints are responsible for the same.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Sixth freedom<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Sixth freedom is the bilateral air traffic right to fly from a foreign country to another foreign country while stopping in one\u2019s own country.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For example, Emirates operates flights between India and the U.K. while stopping at Dubai, its home state.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Sixth freedom traffic constituted 61.14% of the total international traffic in 2015-16, increasing from 59.15% in 2014-15.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Survey said this had reduced the share of direct, long-haul flight for Indian carriers form 25% in 2011-12 to 20.5% in 2015-16.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Ease norms for airlines to fly abroad\u2019: Context: The economic survey has asked the government to build airline hubs in India which could compete with the hubs in the UAE and South East Asia that were taking away Indian traffic to the US and Europe from domestic carriers. Introduction: The second volume of the Economic&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/ease-norms-for-airlines-to-fly-abroad\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018Ease norms for airlines to fly abroad\u2019:<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704856591},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}