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Air India Seeks Domestic Passengers Facilitation For Its Flyers Landing in US A

[New Delhi]Air India Seeks Domestic Passengers Facilitation For Its Flyers Landing in the US A .For Which The national carrier has sought the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) facility at Mumbai and Delhi airports to begin with, which would allow these passengers complete the immigration process at these airports itself.
Facing stiff competition from the Jet Airways-Etihad combine on the lucrative US routes, Air India has requested the External Affairs Ministry to facilitate a pre-clearance facility for the flyers on its US-bound non-stop flights from major domestic airports.
If Air India is allowed to have such a facility, its passengers would not have to go for immigration clearance on arrival,
Such a facility exists for Jet-Etihad passengers at Abu Dhabi, which is the headquarters of Etihad.
According to a recent report of the Sydney-based aviation think tank Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation (CAPA), passengers from India contributed 36 per cent to Emirates and Etihad’s US traffic in a 12-month period ending August 2014.