134. Scheduled Air
Transport Services-
(1) No person shall operate any Scheduled air transport service from, to, in,
or across India except with the permission of the Central Government, granted
under and in accordance with and subject to the provisions contained in
Schedule XI :
Provided that any person
already permitted and operating scheduled air transport services before
commencement of the Aircraft (Second Amendment) Rules, 1994, or any successor
to such person under section 3 of the Air Corporation (Transfer of Undertaking
and Repeal Ordinance, 1994 (Ord. 4 of 1994), may continue operation of such
services subject to the provisions of sub-rule (1A).
(1A) The Central Government
may, with a view to achieving better regulation of air transport services and
taking into account the need for air transport services of different regions in
the country, direct, by general or special order issued from time to time, that
every operator operating any scheduled air transport service shall render
service in accordance with the conditions specified in such order including any
condition relating to their due compliance.
(2) The Central Government
may permit any air transport undertaking of which the principal place of
business is in any country outside India to operate a scheduled air transport
service from, to, or across India in accordance with the terms of any agreement
for the time being in force between the Government of India and the Government
of that country, or, where there is no such agreement, of a temporary
authorization by the Government of India.
[Subtituted by
SRO No. 768 dated 2-4-1955 and
amended by GSR 1087 dated 19-7-1965,
GSR No. 117(E) dated 25-2-1994, and
GSR No 643(E) dated 29-7-2010.]