Praful Patel’s Flights of fancy?

Praful Patel’s seven-year tenure in the Ministry of Civil Aviation, before he was moved to the Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises, was far from uneventful. During his term, the two state-owned airlines underwent an ill-fated and ill-planned merger; plans were drawn up for a giant expansion of the merged airline that strained belief; and privately-run carriers complained that the benefits demanded by Air India were cramping their own expansion, and the state-guaranteed tariff cuts that Air India could provide were forcing them into unprofitability. 

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