India will soon revive the sale of its money-losing flag carrier with new guidelines after a recent attempt ended in a debacle last month, as the proposed terms deterred potential investors. PM Narendra Modi’s administration is ready to “re-examine” its privatization process, including a clause requiring a minority state stake in Air India, said Subhash Chandra Garg, a senior official in the Ministry of Finance. The government is considering various options and doesn’t intend to insist on keeping 24 percent of the company, he said. “A certain kind of strategy was offered that didn’t find many takers and therefore something different will have to be done,” Economic Affairs Secretary Garg said Monday. “There’s no fixed objective that government should have 24%. It can be re-examined.” Modi’s most high-profile privatization plan ended in a whimper on May 31 as a deadline for prospective suitors passed by with none showing interest in the airline mired in almost $8b of debt. IndiGo, the nation’s biggest carrier, initially said it was keen but pulled out after the government made it clear it wasn’t selling Air India’s international operations separately.<br/>
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Taiwan is protesting against a move by Singapore Airlines and budget carrier Scoot to name the island as part of China on their websites, in an apparent switch to comply with Beijing's recent demand to foreign airlines. China's aviation regulator in April gave dozens of airlines a May 25 deadline to remove references on their websites and in other material that suggest Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau are countries independent of China. Beijing later extended the deadline to late June. While the White House has described the order as "Orwellian nonsense" and Taiwan has repeatedly condemned it as "bullying", several airlines have already made the change. They include Air Canada, Lufthansa, British Airways and Qantas. SIA and Scoot have likewise changed Taiwan's name on their websites to "Taiwan, China", prompting Taiwan to order its representative office in Singapore to lodge "stern representations" with the airlines, Central News Agency reported late on Tuesday.<br/>
United added another feather in its environmentally-friendly cap on Tuesday. The carrier’s United Club lounge at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) has achieved gold-level certification through the new Audubon International Green Hospitality program. The carrier’s United Club location in Terminal 7 at LAX was recognized for its exemplary indoor air quality, innovative composting program, and overall dedication to environmental stewardship. In announcing the recognition for the LAX United Club lounge, United and Audubon, a not-for-profit environmental education organization, said they will continue to work together to improve the sustainability of the airline’s airport lounges around the world, including the new Polaris lounges at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport and other hub airports.<br/>
United said it is reviewing an incident aboard one of its flight during which a woman claims she was told to incorrectly sit her child facing forward in a car seat. On Sunday, Cassie Hutchins shared on Facebook she was preparing to board a flight from Denver International Airport with her 8-month-old daughter when a gate agent took issue with the use of a car seat. She said because her daughter is only 18 pounds, she flies her in a rear-facing car seat. However, an agent told her neither she nor her daughter could stay on the flight unless they turned the car seat forward. "They told us that the plane could not leave without us moving it, so I knew we would be kicked off if we did not comply," she wrote in a post published on Facebook. United said they were reviewing the incident. "Our customers’ safety is our top priority, so we have already been in touch with the customer and the relevant flight staff to learn more about what happened."<br/>