{"id":36275,"date":"2018-11-02T11:42:47","date_gmt":"2018-11-02T06:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=36275"},"modified":"2018-11-02T11:42:47","modified_gmt":"2018-11-02T06:12:47","slug":"india-still-edgy-about-in-flight-wi-fi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-still-edgy-about-in-flight-wi-fi\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018India still edgy about in-flight Wi-Fi\u2019:\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-national\/india-still-edgy-about-in-flight-wi-fi\/article19237152.ece\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2018India still edgy about in-flight Wi-Fi\u2019<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Context<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Civil Aviataion Secrtary R.N. Chaobey called for making a delicate balance between security and growth of the aviation industry.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">During a seminar organised by National Security Guards<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on \u201cInternational Aviation Security\u201d<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, he referred that India was the only country other than North Korea to not allow WiFi facility in the Aircraft because Security Agencies are not <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">convinced about allowing in-flight Wi-Fi services. Even international airlines flying over India have to switch off Wi-Fi when they travel over India.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Reason for ban on Wi-FI in Aircraft<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ban on WiFi in aircraft is due to<\/span><b> non <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">clearance from Ministry of Communication and Ministry of Home Affairs.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The government\u2019s stand on the issue is still yet unclear. However, domestic carriers like Jet Airways that had announced the roll-out of in-flight Wi-Fi services back in February, 2016.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Indian laws in this regard are so stringent that even international flights are not allowed to turn on WiFi when they fly over the Indian airspace.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the Wall Street Journal Report, the aviation technology specialists insist that mid-air Wi-Fi is an internationally tried-and-tested process and dismiss all security concerns as \u201cspurious\u201d, but the Indian government continues to be haunted by the Kandahar hijack incident from 15 years ago.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>UDAN Scheme <\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">recently announced regional connectivity scheme UDAN <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cUDAN Scheme\u201d may incur losses and one of the significant cause is security.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">UDAN is Regional Connectivity Scheme (RCS) under this scheme the Union Civil Aviation Ministry already has awarded 128 routes connecting 70 airports to 5 airlines.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the flights operated under scheme, around 50% of the seats will have a fare cap Rs 2,500 per seat\/hour.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Apart from various incentives, the operators of such flights will be extended viability gap funding (VGF) for which money is partly raised through a levy imposed on flights operating in major routes.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Conclusion:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At present 15 out of 115 airport operated by Airport Authority of India are making profit and therefore innovative solution needed to find a balance between growth and security. One solution could be template of an aircraft centric security rather than the entire airport.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018India still edgy about in-flight Wi-Fi\u2019:\u00a0 Context The Civil Aviataion Secrtary R.N. Chaobey called for making a delicate balance between security and growth of the aviation industry. During a seminar organised by National Security Guards on \u201cInternational Aviation Security\u201d, he referred that India was the only country other than North Korea to not allow WiFi&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-still-edgy-about-in-flight-wi-fi\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018India still edgy about in-flight Wi-Fi\u2019:\u00a0<\/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-36275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704915009},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36275","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=36275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}