Highlights and vision of India's first integrated civil aviation policy that was approved at a cabinet meeting on Wednesday presided over by Prime Minister Narendra Modi:
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Make India 3rd largest civil aviation market by 2022 from 9th
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Push domestic travel to 300 million passengers by 2022 from 80 million now
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Scheduled operations to expand from 77 airports now to 127 by 2019
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Cargo volumes to increase 4 times to 10 million tonnes by 2027
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Cap of Rs 2,500 per ticket on regional routes
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Sticky 5/20 rule for airlines to fly overseas replaced with new norms: 20 aircraft or 20 per cent deployment on domestic routes
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Flexible, liberalized open skies and code share agreement
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Incentives for aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaul to make India a hub in South Asia
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Skilling of 3.3 lakh personnel by 2025 with certification
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Focus also on development of green-field airports and heliports
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Focus on ease of doing business through deregulation, procedures and e-governance
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Promoting "Make In India" in civil aviation sector
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Detained scheme soon to fund operators in regional routes
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Bilateral rights and code share agreements to be liberalised
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Open skies policy with countries in South Asia on reciprocal basis
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Encouragement to states to develop airports
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Compensation to Airports Authority for airports within 150 km of existing ones
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Promotion of chopper usage with separate regulations soon
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Promotion of four heli-hubs initially
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Facilitation of helicopter emergency medical services
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Customs duty on parts for maintenance units rationalised
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Ground handling policy to be replaced with new framework to ensure fair competition
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Three ground handling agencies including Air India arms at all major airports
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At non-major airports, operator to decide number of ground handling agencies
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Domestic scheduled airline, chopper services allowed self-handling at airports
