The Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh has asked Air India to submit a plan within a week to enhance its share in the domestic passenger market. The plan has to include monthly targets of its market share along with corresponding strategy to achieve these targets for the next one year. The Minister emphasized that a number of efforts have to be made by Air India to regain its number one position in terms of market share.

He noted that the share of the public carrier in the domestic passengers carried by Indian scheduled airlines, has been maintained at the level of 18.2 per cent, same as for July this year. He has also asked Air India to come out with innovative and customer focused strategies to achieve optimum utilisation of all planes.