JAYANT NADKARNI, VICE PRESIDENT, ACASS INDIA
“Equalisation and low rate of import duties of GA/BA aircraft. This will reduce costs and make processes more seamless.”
Issue: BizAvIndia 2/2020
Photo(s): By Jayant Nadkarni / Twitter
- Equalisation and low rate of import duties of GA/BA aircraft. This will reduce costs and make processes more seamless.
- Rules for passenger carriage onboard private category aircraft are very restrictive. They should be re-examined...and relaxed to allow a wider range of passengers especially for internal corporate business use. For example…. Owning company’s Directors/Advisors/employees, also for Group companies, professionals, consultants, vendors, close family, close friends etc. Because of current restrictions, today large Indian corporations who have many Group companies and subsidiaries, are forced to get themselves first licensed as commercial operators (NSOPs) and only then they are able to carry other people, that too after doing unnecessary paperwork, invoicing between group companies, etc. If this clarity is given then these large corporates can operate a private category. Will go a long way in facilitating ease of doing business for Indian corporates, and imparting strategic mobility, especially in these times of hesitations and hampered scheduled airlines as a mode of travel.
- Speed of e-DGCA rollout to go up, and its scope to be expanded. This will ensure ease of working for operators with DGCA.
- MoCA along with associated Ministries, to create an enabling environment for Aeromedical flights and HEMS, which will require framework and policy level support from Insurance companies and public health systems (currently sub-optimal in India).
- Government to bring in specific policy framework changes to enable new business models like Aircraft Fractional Ownership programmes (currently non-existing in India). These will make entry costs for BA access much cheaper and allow many more companies to avail of strategic mobility for travel, rather than relying on low availability of charter aircraft or commercial airlines.
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