New Delhi, Aug. 8 -- Amid unprecedented growth in India's aviation sector, the Federation of Indian Pilots (FIP) has renewed a high-stakes call for structural reform, urging Prime Minister Narendra Modi to establish an autonomous, statutory Civil Aviation Authority (CAA).

In a detailed proposal addressed to the Prime Minister on August 6, FIP President Capt CS Randhawa stressed that India, now the third-largest domestic aviation market in the world, remains an outlier among major regional economies by continuing to rely on the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), an attached office of the Ministry of Civil Aviation.

While the DGCA has historically overseen India's skies, the letter highlights that the rapid expansion of the sec...