With international travel on the rise, Indian aviation regulator eases norms for carriers

• The number of Indians flying overseas for holidays has seen a significant jump in recent times.
• DGCA conduct an assessment of the preparedness of Indian airline operators before permitting foreign operations.
• The current 33-point checklist related to operation preparedness has been reduced to a 10-point checklist.
  

In order to simplify and facilitate the process for Indian carriers to start a new international destination, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation has reduced it to only a 10-point checklist.

The number of Indians flying overseas for holidays has seen a significant jump in recent times, as per a CNBC international report which says that travel searches in the country have jumped by a whopping 225%.

"India is the new China as international travel rebounds," Qantas Airways' Chief Executive Officer Alan Joyce said in an interview to Bloomberg TV.

In a statement, DGCA mentioned that they conduct an assessment of the preparedness of Indian airline operators before permitting their operations to a new foreign destination.

"In order to further ease the process for grant of such permission the existing regulatory requirements have been comprehensively reviewed in consultation with all stakeholders and the current 33-point checklist has been rationalised and reduced to a 10-point checklist related to their preparedness for the intended operations, removing other generic and redundant provisions in the existing checklist," it said.

"The objective of this rationalisation is to simplify and facilitate the process for Indian carriers to start a new international destination and would significantly reduce the documentation/compliances required to be submitted by the operators. This systemic reform comes at a time when the Indian carriers are poised to expand their international footprint," the statement added.

With text inputs from ANI

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