Boom in air traffic and various challenges –– congestion and scarcity of talent –– accompanying it have launched the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) into a new orbit.
Analysts reckon that Director General of Civil Aviation, K Gohain, faces steep challenges since the airlines are inducting aircraft by the dozen. So many new airlines have sprung up and many more waiting for take off. An increasing number of foreign airlines are now landing in India, many of them with daily flights to most metro cities.
The situation is such that landing and parking slots are not available at many airports like Mumbai and Delhi, especially during peak hours. Similar is the situation in the case of airport terminals which are bursting at the seams, with passengers often finding it difficult to wade through check-in and security screening.
Only a sustained effort by the government to strengthen DGCA will result in discipline of all the key players involved in this key service sector which happens to be more high-profile than any other.
19/02/07 G Ganapathy Subramaniam/Economic Times
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Monday, February 19, 2007
Air blues put DGCA in new orbit
Monday, February 19, 2007
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