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Highlights include regional connectivity scheme, liberalization of foreign investment

The HTT-40 is due to enter service in 2018.

Air Astana is facing a dilemma as to whether it can still afford the Boeing 787s it plans to add to its fleet.

Maker is touting strategic ISR capability with new multispectral sensor.

Start-up carrier People Over Profit intends to donate at least 51 percent of its profits to charities in the UK and India.

ASEAN Open Skies seen as impetus for group’s formation

JetSmart has an agreement with 15 Indian operators to provide charter capacity.

Despite a previous accident, the country is again considering lighter-than-air surveillance solutions.

India's Ministry of Civil Aviation is expected to issue operating policy for unmanned aerial systems by year-end.

Rule will elimination of the requirement for HEMS operators to file a flight plan and allow helicopters to fly point-to-point below 5,000 feet.

Request for information calls for responses by April 11

India's business aviation sector says high interest rates are a deterrent to aircraft purchases.

Ukraine-Russia split prevents finish of Antonov upgrade; MTA project to replace An-32s also founders.

The Indian government is looking at regulating drone use after high-profile incidents.

The U.S. company held a seminar recently in Singapore called “Girls Take Flight.”

Jaipr and Ahmedabad look set to be the first Indian airports to benefit from management expertise from Singapore Changi.

India’s aviation policy still has issues

Boeing further participates in Make In India

Bird Worldwide Flight Services-ExecuJet and Indamer-MJets named concessionaires at Delhi Airport as 20 operators and agencies and companies are evicted.

Promised changes include new investment in regional connectivity

But contract for 36 Rafales remains to be signed, and most details of the helicopter deal remain undefined.

Plans to apply ‘lessons learned’ from new common processes at Heathrow’s Terminal 2

Plans to co-produce the ShinMaywa amphibian in India have stalled.

No agreement meeting India’s desire to acquire the S-400 air defense system was signed.

United Airlines is expanding services to secondary Chinese cities while seeking to grow Indian service in alliance with Air India.

South African low-fare carrier Mango joins network under ‘Connecting Partner Model’

Airport expansion in the Asia Pacific region is still being constrained by ill-considered regulatory hurdles, according to Airports Council International.

The jet was seized three years ago by India’s tax authority after Kingfisher failed to remit $28 million in service taxes collected from passengers.

The Association of Asia Pacific Airlines recently met to push for an end to what they regard as heavy-handed treatment by international safety bodies.

Number of general aviation handlers at India's Delhi Airport will go from 15 to two under new contract award.