Looks India's government is fighting back against the *A rejection of Air India be penalizing other carriers in the group:

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By Rajiv Sekhri
Sept. 9 (Bloomberg) -- India’s National Air Ministry has
denied Deutsche Lufthansa AG permission to land its widebody
A380 aircraft in New Delhi, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
reported in an article to be published tomorrow, without saying
how it got the information.
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