The 6th US-India Aviation Summit was formally inaugurated by Union Minister for Civil Aviation, Suresh Prabhu in Mumbai today.

Speaking on the occasion, Mr Prabhu said India has great potential and opportunities in civil aviation sector and its partnership with the US will boost strategic relationship between two countries.

He further said that the best in this sector is yet to come and promised to expand civil aviation by engaging more and more people and connecting more cities. He informed that India is now focusing on Cargo policy and looking at the collaboration with US for the same.

U.S. Ambassador to India, Kenneth I. Juster, was also present on the ocassion. He said that India-US engagement in civil aviation sector is pretty long. He however said that the partnership between two nations shaped in last 10 years after the official MoU was signed and these summits provided actual support to materialise this partnership.

The biennial Summit is jointly organised by Ministry of Civil Aviation and US Trade and Development Agency (USTDA). The summit is a technical, policy and commercial forum by the Indian Ministry of Civil Aviation and the US Trade and Development Agency.

Besides a US and India bilateral meeting, the summit will also include sessions on India's projected aviation growth in next five years, aviation security and technologies for worldwide airspace management among others.