Give aviation a level playing field and watch it fly

xA recent study highlights the sea change in Indian aviation since 2000. Time was when only one airline went overseas; seven do today. The low-cost segment now hogs 70% of the market. Passenger traffic has more than trebled - from 42 million to 150 million. If that's small in light of a one billion-plus population, it's forecast that 452 million passengers will fly each year by 2020 and the country's fleet will have 1,030 aircraft. India, in short, will become the world's third largest aviation market - in less than a decade.

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