The Director-General of the International Air Transport Association, Tony Tyler, has said that it is important India gets its aviation policy right.
Addressing the first Aviation Day here on Tuesday, Tyler said while big bang changes are difficult there are incremental changes which can be done.
He called for India to relook ground handling policy and combining forces to modernise cargo handling. He has proposed that just as in 2008 we said goodbye to paper tickets, we should now move on to e-freight.
Chairman of the Airports Authority of India, V.P. Agrawal, said that it plans to commission a study on the impact of the Chennai airport on the GDP of the city and the State. The Delhi Airport had got such a survey done which showed that Delhi airport contributes over Rs 20,000 crore to the city.
AAI has said that it has selected 10 airports for metro connectivity. In Chennai airport, it should come up next year, Agrawal added.
Addressing the Aviation Day seminar here, Agrawal said that such studies were also planned for other airports of AAI .
The Minister of Civil Aviation, Ajit Singh, said that the Indian carriers have been given an additional 81,000 seats a week to South East Asia and Gulf region.