US regulator downgrades India's aviation safety ranking

January 31, 2014 15:52

The United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has downgraded India's aviation safety ranking, which means Indian carriers cannot increase flights to the United States and face additional checks for existing flights.

The FAA has downgraded India to Category 2 from Category 1, Prabhat Kumar, India's director general of civil aviation, was quoted by a business newspaper as saying.

Jet Airways and state-run Air India operate flights from India to the United States.

"It is a big national embarrassment, particularly for the fact that for five years we did not get our act together. There was a first warning of a downgrade in 2009 which we managed to avert by bringing in some temporary people," Kapil Kaul of aviation consultancy firm Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation, told NDTV.

The move could impact Indian carriers future operations in the US, their code share arrangement and the foreign passengers' perception on Indian safety, he added.

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