The Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion will not allow foreign airlines to buy into domestic Indian carriers on the ground that ' It is not allowed in the US, UK or any other major European country ....... nobody allows foreign players to take stake in their domestic airlines, so why India should allow?' Firstly the countries mentioned do not have politicians who are all criminals and civil servants who are all thieves. Secondly no other country has a so called ' national carrier ' called Air India which has three times the number of staff required and everyone is a crook. No other government is pouring tens of billions of taxpayer rupees into such a cesspool without any consultation and doing its best to make air travel immensely expensive by levying astronomical taxes on tickets and fuel. The government deliberately kills off any competition because it knows that Air India will collapse. Also by making air travel so expensive the government forces people into trains which means that Indian Railways, a government company, always has full trains. This means that the Railways can charge very highly for first class and air conditioned classes, as long as it is less than air tickets, which in turn means that the aam aadmi can travel dirt cheap in unreserved coaches. We are told that this is public service which is garbage because survival of criminal politicians depends on hundreds of millions of naked, starving, groveling creatures. These are the source of their power. Give cheap rice here, free electricity there, free clothes in another place and you win elections, the source to incredible wealth. Never allow them to fly, keep them in the gutter. That makes Indian politicians khas.