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A team of officials of the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will visit India towards the end of the month to review the country’s aviation safety oversight mechanisms.
India expects to be upgraded to CAT I status thereafter, a senior official of the aviation ministry said.
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The FAA had downgraded India to category II status in safety oversight capability in January last year on two key concerns — lack of training of its officials and lack of full-time Flight Operations Inspectors (FOIs) on DGCA’s rolls. Both these issues have been resolved now.
The downgrade meant that no Indian airline could launch any additional flights to the US and the existing flights to America could be subjected to more checks which could lead to delays.
