Category: Civil Aviation

The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has ordered an inquiry after a passenger who was supposed to take an Indigo flight to Patna instead boarded another flight of the airline and landed at Udaipur – about 1400km away from his destination. The incident was reported on January 30 (Monday), and the passenger was sent […]

A heated argument broke out between passengers and staff of a Patna-bound SpiceJet flight after it got delayed by over two hours at Delhi airport. According to officials, the flight was delayed due to operational issue. “The flight’s departure was delayed due to an operational issue. It has already landed in Patna,” said the SpiceJet […]

InterGlobe Aviation Ltd, the operator of India’s top airline IndiGo, on Friday reported an eleven-fold jump in quarterly profit led by a pick up in demand for air travel. The airline has been contending with surging fuel costs and currency volatility tha t hit profit for the past three quarters. However, a sharp recovery in […]

Aviation regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has sought a detailed report from the Air India Express after its flight from Abu Dhabi to Kozhikode (Calicut) was forced to return to its originating airport due to an engine failure on Friday. “We have begun investigating the matter and have sought a detailed report of […]

An Air India Express flight from Abu Dhabi to Kerala’s Kozhikode (or Calicut) was forced to return shortly after taking off because of a ‘flameout’ in the No. 1 engine while the plane was climbing. National regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation told news agency ANI the plane was a Boeing 737-800 and that it […]

Aircraft, pilots, and the sheer pleasure of flying in the limitless azure skies is an ambition that almost every child harbours in his or her heart. I clearly remember that on being asked the most hackneyed question, “Beta, bade ho kar kya banna chahte ho? (Son, what do you want to be when you grow […]

More than 1,000 Monday flights into or out of the United States have been canceled due to a severe winter storm, with about half of those coming from Southwest Airlines Co. A total of 1,019 flights were canceled as of 6:00 pm ET, according to flight-tracking service FlightAware. Low-cost carrier Southwest earlier this month faced […]

Happiness is often hidden in the simplest of things. And, Twitter is now in love with one such moment shared by a man on the microblogging site. The man tweeted an image to show his first ever flight at the age of 27. Chances are, his moment of joy will leave you smiling too. Twitter […]

The Directorate General of Civil Aviation on Tuesday slapped a ₹10 lakh fine on Air India for not reporting twin incidents of passengers’ misbehavuour on board an AI-142 flight from Paris to New Delhi on December 6 last year. In a statement, the airline regulator said two incidents occurred on the Paris-New Delhi flight. In […]

After a series of incidents involving ‘drunk’ and unruly passengers, including the detestable urination episode on New York to Delhi flight in November, Air India on Tuesday announced that it has made “some adjustments” to the existing in-flight alcohol service policy. “We have reviewed our existing in-flight alcohol service policy taking reference from other carriers’ […]

New Delhi: Air India on Tuesday accepted that it did not correctly classify , and therefore, did not report the incident on flight AI102 where a drunk passenger urinated on an elderly woman. In a statement issued on Tuesday, the airline also added that it would help the pilot, who was de-rostered by the aviation […]

Mumbai: A drunk passenger on board an Indigo Airlines Chennai-Mumbai flight was arrested by the Sahar police in the early hours of Monday after the crew lodged a complaint against him for creating a ruckus during take-off. According to the crew, the passenger, identified as Darshan Parekh, 35, was drunk and refused to follow safety […]