The US aviation watchdog, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), has kept India’s Category 1 status unchanged under its International Aviation Safety Assessment (IASA) programme, The Economic Times (ET) reported.
Category 1 status means that airlines of the country concerned can operate and expand their services to destinations in the US and can codeshare with US carriers.
The FAA has devised a mechanism under its IASA programme that determines if a country’s airlines that want to use American airspace for operations are compliant with safety standards established by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO).
