The policy failure behind the aviation meltdown
Like the Gulf states, the Americans have also given up their decades-long efforts to get more involved in India’s airline business.
Updated At : 02:07 AM Dec 15, 2025 IST
Cavalier: The refusal to review bilateral air service pacts has hit the aviation sector’s growth. Reuters
SINCE the change of government at the Centre in 2014, the Civil Aviation Minister's office in New Delhi has become a customary port of call for foreign ministers from the Gulf visiting India, to no avail in all cases. They have been wasting their time and many such visiting ministers have eventually given up, treating India's civil transport industry as a dead end. This is a side story of the meltdown in air passenger transport across the nation this month, of which the Indigo airline has become emblematic and is the whipping boy for everyone, with Air India being cited as the other but smaller, part of a duopoly on the country's skies.
