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The Survey has suggested a more liberal rule on plying abroad for airlines, to bolster India’s share in international air traffic, and more protection for domestic carriers while negotiating bilateral traffic rights.
Expansion of capacity entitlements under bilateral service agreements with other countries has hurt Indian carriers, it says. Foreign airlines dominate the traffic to and from India. The Survey gives reasons for these. One is foreign airlines utilising what is termed the “sixth freedom of the air” (the right to carry passengers or cargo from a second country to a third one while stopping in one’s home country). Also,
