June 25, 2002 | 0400 IST
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India seeks 'proper' landing slots for A-I in LondonWith British carrier Virgin Atlantic threatening to pull out of India if it was not granted 14 flights a week from Delhi and Mumbai, the government on Monday night said it wants Air India to get 'proper' landing slots at Heathrow in order to enable it increase the number of its flights to London."Bilaterals (air traffic rights) cannot be a one-sided affair," Civil Aviation Minister Shahnawaz Hussain said while reacting to the Virgin threat. Air India, at the moment, uses only 10 of the 19 frequencies it is entitled to operate on the India-UK sector. Two of the unutilised frequencies are used by Virgin in a code-share arrangement. Virgin chief Richard Branson had told Star News, "We are not threatening. If we don't get seven flights a week to Delhi and seven flights a week to Mumbai, then we will pull out and put the services on other countries." Following the recent talks between Hussain and his British counterpart Alistair Darling, a group of top civil aviation ministry officials had held bilateral negotiations in London late last week. However, these talks ended in a stalemate, official sources said. Another round of bilateral talks are likely to be held in a couple of weeks, the sources added.
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