Merging two airlines into one is a task fraught with risk, as Air India and Indian Airlines learnt to their discomfiture more than a decade and a half ago when a merger was forced on them by then Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel, overriding concerns voiced, including by this newspaper, that the scheme was hare-brained.
The DGCA said that the inspection has been ordered as a precautionary measure after Alaska Airlines mishap.
The fall of Air India has coincided with the rise of private airlines. While the behemoth, hamstrung by bureaucracy, could not match the agility of smaller players, crony capitalism also played an important part in Air India's downfall. This is hardly surprising; State enterprises offering consumer services like BSNL and MTNL are in a similar position for similar reasons.
Pakistan earlier in the day lifted the ban on Indian flights that were not allowed to use a majority of the country's airspace since the Balakot air strikes in February.
"We will first get all (solicited and unsolicited) bids legally verified and after that we will invite the selected parties on to the negotiating table," a senior banker told IANS in Mumbai.
Operations of airlines like SpiceJet and Jet Airways have been hit the most due to the DGCA decision to join a global grounding of 737-MAX aircraft following a crash in Ethiopia
In view of the threat call, Airport Security Unit or Aviation Security Group and all aircraft operators have been asked to adopt eight measures with immediate effect.
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