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