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States the manner in which Air India is carrying out operations under the guise of charter flights develops a ‘competitive disadvantage’ for U.S. airlines.

In an obstacle to the federal government’s Vande Bharat mission, the United States is most likely to bar Air India from running charter flights for allegedly breaching a bilateral contract by denying one of its airlines consent to perform repatriation charters from India.

The U.S. federal government’s Department of Transport (DoT) has actually said that the manner in which Air India is conducting operations under the guise of charter flights develops a “competitive disadvantage” for U.S. airline companies.