"Perhaps their investment in Space should be diverted into aviation?" (parkfell)
But investment by India in ISRO allows the country, and its cadres in air and space law salons, to say it has become a "space-faring" state. There is no equivalent glamour in asserting status as a "sky-faring" or "high-fidelity aviation" state. (Whether the latter type of technical and managerial finesse is a prerequisite for the former, can be an interesting question.)