The minister also said that a promised merger announced last month between two private domestic carriers, Jet Airways and AirSahara , would be permitted.
Between 80 and 100 storm systems form each year as bodies of hot, dry air over the Sahara Desert, pick up moisture as they move out across the Atlantic.
They get their initial power and instability from the difference in temperature between the very hot Saharaair and the substantially cooler air along the coast of the Gulf of Guinea.
The best is in the Sahara desert, particularly in Niger's Air mountains, in the Tibesti mountains of northern Chad and southern Libya, and in south-east Algeria's Tassili n'Ajjer range.