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    Possibilities and problems plaguing the aviation sector as it readies for a post-covid journey

    India’s aviation and travel sector, like in the rest of the world, saw its worst days during Covid.

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    ​​There is a view that India, under previous governments, gave away too many foreign-flying rights to foreign carriers, which have made a business model around flying passengers from India to a third country while stopping at the airlines’ home country, known in aviation parlance as the sixth freedom traffic.

    On the first day of Wings India 2022 in Hyderabad last week, my Uber driver, who was quiet throughout a 15-minute ride, asked a question the moment he took a turn for the Begumpet Airport — the venue for the air show. “Hum log bhi jaa sakte hai dekhne ke liye? Kitne ka ticket hai (Can people like us also go and watch the air show? How much will the ticket cost)?” he asked. These two questions, strangely, sum up the Indian aviation market as
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