Category: Civil Aviation

Azad Engineering, a city-based maker of supercritical rotating components used in the aerospace industry has won a contract from Boeing to manufacture and supply critical aviation components and parts, the company said on Monday. The company’s technology enhancements over the years, and a continuous culture of quality and industrial safety has made it a trusted […]

Financial bids for Air India are likely to be received from qualified interested bidders (QIBs) by September 15 this year, Minister of State for Civil Aviation V K Singh said on Thursday. The Centre had invited Expression of Interests (EoIs) for Air India on January 27, 2020. The last date of submission — after multiple […]

Air India is a separate corporate entity with its own management and board so there is “no likely impact” on its ongoing disinvestment process due to the lawsuits filed by Cairn Energy and Devas Multimedia in the US court, Minister of State for Civil Aviation VK Singh said on Thursday. Cairn Energy and Devas Multimedia, […]

Financial bids for the sale of the government’s entire stake in the state-owned carrier Air India are likely to be in by September 15, Parliament was informed on Thursday. The government also informed the House that Cairn Energy’s and Devas Multimedia’s lawsuits in the US District Court for Southern District of New York seeking declaratory […]

On 25 July 2000, Air France Flight 4590, crashed in Gonesse, France, killing all 100 passengers and nine crew members on board as well as four people on the ground. This was the flight of a famous supersonic Concorde aircraft, of a British–French turbojet-powered supersonic passenger airliner. In the 27 years history of Concorde flying, […]

Odisha’s Airport gets new Instrument Landing System! Recently, a new Instrument Landing System (ILS) has been commissioned at Veer Surendra Sai Airport in Odisha by the Airports Authority of India (AAI). According to AAI, the newly commissioned Instrument Landing System will help in the precise landing at the Veer Surendra Sai Airport (Jharsuguda Airport). It […]

Bangalore International Airport to become Smart Airport in coming years! In a bid to create an “Airport in a Box” platform, which transforms technology, operations, as well as customer experience, the operator of Kempegowda International Airport in Bengaluru (KIAB/BLR Airport), Bangalore International Airport Limited (BIAL), has signed a ten-year partnership with the company- IBM. A […]

Three committees of the Centre-run Airports Authority of India (AAI) in January found the Adani group to be in violation of branding norms, prescribed in the concession agreements, at the airports in Ahmedabad, Mangaluru and Lucknow that the conglomerate took over last year. Consequently, the Adani group companies — which are operating these three airports […]

Noida International Airport: Noida has been looking forward to getting an international airport for a long time, and now, the Zurich Airport International has signed a shareholder agreement with Noida International Airport Limited or NIAL, an entity under the Uttar Pradesh government, for the development of the Noida International Airport. The agreement was signed by […]

Boeing will cut production of its large 787 aircraft after a structural flaw was discovered in some undelivered planes. The production rate for the 787, which it calls the Dreamliner, will fall below five per month and the Chicago company said Tuesday that it now anticipates that it will deliver less than half of the […]

Painting a grim picture, global aviation consultant CAPA believes the second Covid wave could precipitate a collapse of the aviation sector. It forecasts ~82% of pre-Covid demand by March 2022 and possibly ~100% by H2FY23.

Jyotiraditya Scindia has been appointed as the new Civil Aviation Ministry by the Modi government. Hardeep Puri, who headed the Ministry of Civil Aviation, will now head Urban Development and Petroleum Ministry, the government announced. Scindia is among the prominent new faces that have been inducted into the Modi Cabinet on Wednesday. Interestingly, his father […]