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India`s aviation ministry is proposing that startup airlines be allowed to start flights of over six-hour duration - including Europe, North America and Australia - once they set up a certain minimum domestic network. Flights of under six-hour duration - including Gulf, Southeast and SAARC regions - will be allowed when startups double their domestic network over the minimum coverage. For a big startup like Vistara (a JV between Tata Sons and Singapore Airlines), it could mean over a year of flying within the country to start US, Europe operations and over two years of domestic flying before mounting flights to nearby regions. Relatively smaller ones like Tata-AirAsia could take longer.
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