India, taking a significant step toward aiding safe takeoffs and landings when faced with extremely low visibility at airports, is developing a runway assessment system called the Drishti Transmissometer.

Jet Airways named aviation specialist Cramer Ball as its new chief executive officer. Jet’s last CEO, Garry Kenneth Toomey, quit in mid-January, barely seven months after taking charge of the airline. Gaurang Shetty, the airline’s director and manager, will continue to lead it “till the requisite approvals are obtained and Ball assumes charge as the CEO,” a Jet Airways spokesman says.

As Air India prepares to be inducted into one of the largest airline alliances in the world, the new Indian government has indicated that it is not averse to the idea of privatizing the money-losing national carrier. “We are examining and trying to formulate our views ... I am not close to any idea,” says new Civil Aviation Minister Ashok Gajapathi Raju Pusapati, referring to proposals for privatizing the state-run carrier. But there will be no hasty decision on privatization, the minister said after taking office on May 29.