The Civil Aviation Ministry seems inclined to consider SpiceJet’s proposal to promote the induction of wide-body aircraft such as the Boeing 777 by Indian carriers. A possible way to incentivize induction of bigger aircraft for operating long haul flights to Europe and the US is by launching a scheme of UDAN which provides subsidy to operators for connecting smaller towns in the country.
On recent time, the Ajay Singh led SpiceJet had written to the government think tank Niti Aayog pointing out that foreign airlines were taking away 60 per cent of international traffic of India to various destination globally by using their transit hubs. They suggested that a large part of this traffic could have been captured by Indian carriers in case they had a fleet of wide-body aircraft. Niti Aayog took a note of it immediately and wrote to the Aviation Ministry to give suggestions for reversing the trend.
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