New Delhi: The government today approved the signing of a pact with Canada to enhance technical knowledge in civil aviation and deepen bilateral cooperation.
While national carrier Air India is mulling to resume direct flight services to Toronto from the coming winter schedule, Air Canada, which had earlier pulled out its services from India, has already announced the resumption of direct air connectivity between the two countries from November this year.
The Toronto-New Delhi-Toronto service would operate four times each week and Air India is likely to operate its services thrice a week.
The Union Cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, approved the signing of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the two countries which seeks to foster greater commercial and economic cooperation between the two countries.
"An appropriate platform shall be formalised for exchange of views on the possibilities of fostering greater commercial/economic cooperation between the two countries in the areas of civil aviation," an official statement said while underlining the key features of the MoU.
"Both the nations will also have a cooperation programme in the areas of safety of aircraft operations and related issues that will provide more up-to-date knowledge to the Directorate General of Civil Aviation to make it familiar with best international practices and latest International Civil Aviation Organisation's safety oversight programme requirements," the statement said
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