61.   Foreign airlines would have to request special clearance from the aviation ministry to invest or launch joint ventures with private Indian airlines.

62.   Four private airlines have applied to operate domestic routes in Bangladesh, newspapers reported here Monday.

63.   He said the government would allow private Nepalese airlines to fly in the international sector.

64.   In recent weeks an aggressive private airline, Air Liberte, has gone bankrupt, blaming a squeeze by Air France and the state for many of its problems.

65.   Indian Airlines was trying to shift stranded passengers to private airlines and was deploying executives to command flights, officials said.

66.   Indian Airlines officials said they were meanwhile trying to shift stranded passengers to private airlines.

67.   Islamabad has allowed a private Afghan airline run by Uzbek leader General Abdul Rashid Dostam to operate flights to Peshawar in northwest Pakistan, officials said Thursday.

68.   A private domestic Indonesian airline has extended its shutdown for at least three more months after suspending flights in March due to fierce competition, a spokesman said Monday.

69.   A private airline plans to lease seven aircraft from Airbus Industrie in the first deal between an Indian carrier and the European consortium, a newspaper reported Thursday.

70.   A training pilot with a Bangladeshi private airline was killed Friday when his small plane crashed in the capital Dhaka, police said.