Airlines
Ailing Indian Airlines Get Relief from Gagan Delay
The subcontinent extends the deadline for implementation of its satellite-based augmentation system until June 2020.
Indian low-fare airline IndiGo expects to install Gagan equipment on its entire fleet of more than 200 Airbus A320s by 2020. (Photo: Flickr: Creative Commons (BY-SA) by Kurush Pawar - DXB)
Indian low-fare airline IndiGo expects to install Gagan equipment on its entire fleet of more than 200 Airbus A320s by 2020. (Photo: Flickr: Creative Commons (BY-SA) by Kurush Pawar - DXB)

As airlines in India suffer severe losses despite high passenger loads, relief has come by way of an extension of the Directorate General of Civil Aviation's (DGCA) mandatory deadline for installing GPS-Aided Geo Augmented Navigation (Gagan) equipment on all India-registered aircraft from January 1, 2019, to June 2020.


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