India has initiated the process of privatizing the operation and management of six airports by issuing of requests for qualification (RFQ) for two of the targeted facilities. State-run Airports Authority of India (AAI) on Sept. 3, invited bids for operations, maintenance and development of its airports in Chennai in south India and Lucknow in the north, an civil aviation ministry spokesman says.

Indian business aircraft operators are facing a headwind after the country’s aviation regulator banned them from international flights until they demonstrate compliance with new safety standards.

NEW DELHI — India expects to make another attempt to launch the GSAT-14 communications satellite aboard its Geostationary Satellite Launch Vehicle (GSLV) in December, a senior space scientist says. Plans to loft GSLV-D5 were scrubbed on Aug. 19 just hours before the scheduled liftoff from the launch pad in south India, due to a fuel leak in the second stage of the rocket engine.