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Foreign airlines, especially the middle East ones including Emirates, Qatar, Eithad and Turkish Airlines are asking for more flying rights to/from India since quite a few years now. But Modi government has been denying more seats to them. The reason given for this is to benefit Indian carriers like Air India and IndiGo. This policy is very anti-economy and anti-public if you look at the facts. Air India flies direct to only a handful of destinations and that too majorly from Mumbai and Delhi. Same applies to IndiGo and IndiGo doesn't even have major long haul flying. Also Indian airports are not designed for transfer hubs and it's a nightmare to transfer domestic to international and vice versa at Delhi. For some one living in many cities in Europe, US or Canada or even far east Asia and Australia and who want to go to major cities like Chennai, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Cochin, or Kolkata have no other options but to fly foreign airlines. If the flying rights of such foreign airlines are restricted, it only inconveniences the public in the form of less options and higher fares. It is impossible for Air India and IndiGo to meet needs of over a billion Indians. US has open sky policy in which it allows any international airline to fly any number of flights to and from US given airport capacity. Each flight to a particular airport generates a lot of business in that city.
There is nothing called ‘denying’ or ‘favoring’. It just means that there is not enough ‘hard cash’ on the table.
This is normal. All countries have seat quotas negotiated with each other. Nothing specific to India
There is but India's quota is very restrictive given its population! If you compare the quota in proportion to population, you will see the difference!
sportking - It's like saying each country has rules. Generic statement with no value. Microsoft is right.
Microsoft is from SI regions. AI doesn't fly directly there. Agree in general that there should be more direct flights between US and India even for DEL and BOM
Correct, If you compare fares out of Mumbai and Delhi to US/Canada/Europe or other regions, they are comparatively cheaper v/s flying out of major SI cities. It is impossible for Air India to meet demands to and from all Indian cities. Restrictions should be subjective. Like no more rights from Mumbai or Delhi but where supply is less, there shouldn't be a problem to assign more rights to foreign carriers.
What do you mean? There’s a Bangalore<>SF flight
Route restrictions and cabotage are very common in the aviation world. That is why you only have US flagged carriers able to fly US domestic routes.
I am talking about international rights. No foreign airlines are asking for domestic rights in India duh!
Routes are also limited for international routes to/from the U.S. It is heavily negotiated.
Maybe air India has bribed the officials to stop them. Vote the right guy next time
This has been from before Air India went private.
Maybe Rajesh doesn’t know shit