To the uninitiated observer, the recent announcement of India's civil aviation regulator that domestic airlines had registered a growth of 2.62 per cent in the first five months of this year in comparison with last year may suggest cloudless skies.
The reality, though, is that the country's aviation sector is a bird flying with at least one damaged wing. The causes are many and include bad policy, slipshod regulation and slippery entrepreneurs. Sadly now, many of these ills are coming home to roost.
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