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The Civil Aviation Ministry is open to taking a fresh look at the restrictions on serving liquor onboard domestic flights. “In the past, there was no real reason other than a few incidents that led to the ban being imposed. This issue is not related to either safety or security. Serving liquor is still allowed on international flights. However, there’s no proposal from any quarter on this as of now. But we’ll look if needed,” Patel said.

Recently, Kingfisher chief Vijay Mallya had made out a case for allowing Kingfisher Airlines to serve wine and beer on-board its domestic flights saying he had already approached the Government seeking permission and was awaiting a response. Mallya had reasoned that if both national carriers could be allowed to serve liquor on board their international flights touching more than one destination in the country, why couldn’t the domestic carriers be allowed the same. Currently, no domestic airline in the country is allowed to serve liquor a flight.