Indians will soon travel cheaply to the middle east according to The Middle East Aviation Outlook Report. Short-haul air traffic in the Middle East and to/from India is tipped to expand at double-digit rates each year for the remainder of this decade, according to a new report from the Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation, to be released next month. Much will depend on the dept of liberalization programmes by the regions governments .Boeing and Airbus predicts the Middle East Market will grow by 5.5% and 6.2% p/a on average until 2025. Asia Pacific Airlines earning will be depressing in 2007-8 because of cost pressures, increasing liberalization, rising capacity growth and rising competition from new entrants. According to the report, the early part of the 21st century has delivered greater steps towards airline liberalization than occurred in the previous 50 years (with the possible exception of the internal EU aviation market in the late 1990s). The Centre sees the Middle East as a major beneficiary of these developments, when added to its ideal geographic position, highly supportive ‘Inc’ policies, with excess airport capacity, and the advent of very long haul aircraft. Removal of archaic airline nationality rules – unevenly, but strongly supported particularly among the Gulf countries – effectively guarantees remarkably different rules governing the right of establishment within the next decade. Mr Harbison the Chairman of(CAPA)said- In practical terms, this means that innovative moves such as the ones currently being floated by AirAsia and Air China, to establish ‘hubs’ at Gulf airports, will become commonplace by the middle of the next decade (and possibly well before that) Even if the process of change is slower, the pressure for airlines to establish themselves in such a generally hospitable and globally competitive aviation environment will certainly ensure at least a considerably higher growth rate than presently being forecast. It will only require one or two airlines to make these moves, for others to recognise the value of it.