'India is giving selective traffic rights wherever it makes sense to allocate those traffic rights.'
Restricting air access to foreign carriers by not granting them more bilateral rights is akin to shooting yourself in the foot, as air transport is a wealth multiplier for India's economy, Emirates President Tim Clark said during a press conference held on the sidelines of the annual general meeting of the International Air Transport Association.
West Asian carriers are up against Air India and IndiGo in the battle for seats on lucrative international routes.
Sergio Garcia snapped a four-year PGA Tour title drought with victory at the rain-delayed Wyndham Championship in North Carolina on Monday that secured the Spaniard a spot on the European Ryder Cup team.
A day after his hotly anticipated return to the PGA Tour Tiger Woods made a premature exit from the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship after being upset 4 and 2 by South African Tim Clark on Thursday. The top seed and defending champion, who had been sidelined by a knee injury after winning his 14th major title at the US Open in June, surrendered an early one-hole advantage in the second round before losing on the 16th green.
The former British Open champion fired a final round five-under 67 to win the $4.7 million Bob Hope Classic.
World number one Tiger Woods and local favourite Ernie Els will go head-to-head at the Presidents Cup at Fancourt on Friday.
The decision cuts the order book for the European company's newest jet, which is due to enter service in around six months' time, by around 10 per cent.
His goal of 18 majors is in serious doubt, but five years after his precipitous fall from grace a rehabilitated Tiger Woods is entering the next phase of his career heading toward making another billion.
India's Shiv Kapur battled to a two-under-par 70 for tied 13th place at the half-way stage of the US$7 million CIMB Classic on Friday, knowing that he needs to shift into high gear to emerge as a legitimate contender. The 31-year-old, who holds one Asian Tour title under his belt, carded three birdies against a lone bogey at the Kuala Lumpur Golf and Country Club's West course where his two-day aggregate of five-under-par 139 left him eight shots behind leader Keegan Bradley of the United States.
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