AirAsia Hopes Malaysia and India Government’s Agreed to ‘Open Skies’ for India
August 24, 2010 | AirAsia, Airline Flight, Aviation
Malaysian and Indian governments will have a meeting to discuss bilateral cooperation between the two countries. AirAsia hopes bilateral meetings would approve the policy of ‘Open Skies’ for India.
AirAisa senior executives on the sidelines of the launch of Kuala Lumpur-Delhi flight, saying “we support the existence of an agreement between Malaysia and India for the courses ‘Open Skies’ for India, because India is one market that has considerable potential for aviation services.”
Open skies is an international policy concept which calls for the liberalisation of rules and regulations on international aviation industry especially commercial aviation. The policy allows both sides to fly as many flights to each others countries subject to availability of airport capacity. India already has an open skies policy with the US.
At the launch ceremony, AirAsiaX Chief Executive Officer Azran Osman-Rani said they had exhausted the seats available to them. He added that though they did not have any plans to expand now, they would like to increase the number of flights from Mumbai and make it daily from four times a week now.
