INDIA UPGRADED TO CATEGORY 1
May 10, 2015
The FAA recently announced that it has upgraded India’s International Aviation Safety Assessment (IASA) rating to Category 1, which means that India’s civil aviation authority complies with ICAO safety standards. A Category 1 rating also allows carriers from India to add flights to the U.S. using their own aircraft and to carry the code of U.S. carriers. India was first awarded a Category 1 rating in 1997, but was downgraded to a Category 2 in 2012 due to certain deficiencies in its Directorate General of Civil Aviation.
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