Boom in air travel

The civil aviation sector has been witnessing a boom as the domestic passenger carriage, cargo movement and international air traffic have shown exponential growth. This growth has been largely fuelled by the policy of increased liberalization, which has been followed by Government on both domestic as well as international side.
The year 2006 has been especially remarkable for the growth witnessed in passenger traffic. The airlines have carried nearly 29 million domestic passengers till November, 2006, which is a growth of 47% over the corresponding period of 2005. Further, the scheduled domestic air services are now available to/from 75 airports as against nearly 50 in the year 2000.
A revised air services agreement was signed with USA to increase co-operation in the aviation sector. Under this agreement, both sides can designate any number of airlines to operate services to any point in the territory of the other country with full intermediate and beyond traffic rights. Trend of liberalization gained further momentum during 2006 and traffic rights were enhanced with various countries in order to enable greater connectivity to/from India e.g. UAE (Dubai), Thailand, Italy, Russia, Taiwan, Finland, Maldives, Tanzania, Japan, Sri Lanka, UAE (Sharjah), Kuwait, Spain, Oman, Scandinavian countries, Egypt, Bangladesh.
21/12/06 Press Information Bureau (press release)

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