Category: Civil Aviation

Officials of the Air Intelligence Unit (AIU) of Anna International Airport, Chennai Customs, seized gold worth Rs. 22.1 lakh on Thursday. Two cases of gold smuggling were detected. Officials intercepted Mahalingam, 61, of Thanjavur who arrived from Dubai and when his bags were examined, found four spoon stands made of steel and wood and four […]

In a rare incident that bucked the trend of smuggling in saffron from outside, the Customs Air Intelligence Unit at the Cochin International Airport busted an attempt to smuggle it out when they seized 8 kg of the expensive commodity hidden in the baggage of a passenger headed for Dubai on Thursday morning. A resident […]

The Indian Air Force has focussed on air defence preparedness in the eastern and north-eastern sector with an eye on the country’s ‘eastern neighbour’. On Wednesday night and Thursday morning, the IAF carried out a drill of its Sukhoi or Su-30 jets from the civilian airport on the outskirts of Guwahati. It was the first-of-its-kind […]

The temporary shutdown of Jet Airways may have enabled other airlines to raise their fares because of the gap in demand and capacity, seize premium slots at the Mumbai and Delhi airports, and operate more flights on the most-profitable routes. But uncertainty surrounding Jet Airways’s fate is no cause for celebration for its competitors, and […]

Owing to accute cash crunch, Jet Airways has decided to immediately discontinue all cell phone connections which were allotted to the company for use by its officials. In case some employee wants to retain the number she/he will have to clear all the pending bills and pay for future usage after transfer of the connection […]

Thousands of Air India passengers were stranded across the airline’s domestic and international network early on Saturday morning due to a server issue that lasted for six hours. The problem resulted in the airline not being able to check-in passengers and issue their boarding passes, which delayed 155 flights. The problem occurred at 3 a.m. […]

A GoAir plane, carrying 151 passengers, to the national capital was diverted to Nagpur due to a “technical glitch” in the pressurisation system, according to the airline. The A320 ceo aircraft was flying from Bengaluru on Friday. In a statement, the airline said flight G8-7001 was diverted to Nagpur after the pilot “suspected a technical […]

Air India’s passengers were stranded across its network after its flights were grounded due to a server issue that persisted for six hours before it could be rectified. The airline was not able to issue boarding passes to its passengers because of the server problem. The problem occurred at 3 a.m. and was resolved at […]

As many as 137 Air India flights were delayed on Sunday as the airline continued to face the brunt of a six-hour shutdown of operations owing to Saturday’s server snag. An airline spokesperson said the average duration of delays was likely to be up to three-and-a-half hours. The delays are mostly due to the impact […]

New Delhi: Aviation regulator DGCA has initiated a probe into the incident of the plane carrying Congress President Rahul Gandhi suffering engine trouble, a senior official said. The plane on way to Patna was forced to return to Delhi on Friday after experiencing “engine trouble”. The senior Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) official said […]

Air Canada has said that its fleet of Boeing 737 MAX jets will remain grounded until at least August 1, pushing back a previous estimate for their return to service. Two Boeing 737 MAX aircraft — one operated by Ethiopian Airlines and another by Lion Air — have crashed in recent months, killing nearly 350 […]

Pilots of Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) on Friday launched an open-ended strike following the collapse of pay negotiations, forcing the company to cancel virtually all its flights. The carrier said talks on a new collective bargaining agreement with the SAS Pilot Group, which represents 95% of the company’s pilots in Sweden, Denmark and Norway, collapsed early […]