India’s civil aviation market is poised for double-digit growth in the next decade and the country’s carriers should have more wide-body planes to capture the long-haul segment, Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia said on Thursday.
At the event for inaugurating Air India’s direct flight from Mumbai to San Francisco, he also said that discussions have happened with airlines and the effort is to make Delhi the country’s first international hub.
“We have 86 international carriers coming into India and only 5 national carriers taking people to international destinations outside India. However, these 5 carriers that fly overseas hold 36 per cent market share. We have to look at increasing international to international traffic.
