Private airline bosses seek Manmohan's help to tide over har

NEW DELHI: The owners of India's biggest private airlines met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday and sought much-needed concessions for the crisis-hit sector.

The main demands are learnt to have been about rationalization of sales tax on jet fuel and faster approvals for private airlines to be allowed to fly on those international routes where bilateral from the Indian side remain underutilized.

The PM is learnt to have given a patient hearing to the team of industry chiefs such as Jet's Naresh Goyal, IndiGo' Rahul Bhatia; Spice Jet CEO Neil Mills and Go Air's Jeh Wadia. Kingfisher promoter Vijay Mallya and civil aviation minister Vyalar Ravi were not present in the meeting.

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