India, UAE agree to boost air traffic
20 Mar 2007
Dubai: India and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have agreed to expand air traffic between the two countries, and have signed an agreement that allocates 18 additional flights on the Abu Dhabi-India-Abu Dhabi route.
Both parties have agreed to add 11 flights per week on this route with immediate effect, and an additional seven flights per week from the winter of 2007-08 to Kochi and Thiruvananthapuram. These two cities have been added as additional points of call for designated airlines of the UAE.
In addition, designated airlines of both countries are permitted to operate any number of all-cargo services between any point in India and the UAE with any type of aircraft.
A memorandum-of-understanding to this effect was signed in New Delhi between the director-general of UAE's general civil aviation authority, Mohammad Ganem Al Gaith, and RK Singh, joint secretary in the Indian ministry of civil aviation.
