Love of aircraft is more than a flight of fancy for India?s mega-rich

When Mukesh Ambani, India?s richest man, gave an Airbus A319 jet to his wife Nita as a 44th birthday present, it came equipped with a Jacuzzi, bedroom and bar. At the recent wedding of the son of Kanwar Singh Tanwar, a senior ruling Congress party politician, the groom was given a Bell 426 helicopter by the bride?s family as part of a dowry payment. The fascination that India?s business and political elite has long held for mixing extravagance with private aviation clearly remains intact.

Indeed, it is getting stronger. PwC is predicting that India?s fleet of private aircraft is set

Source: http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/business/markets/india/article3685008.ece

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