CHENNAI: A 31-year-old man was arrested under the POCSO Act for allegedly sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl on Monday while they were travelling on a Chennai-bound flight from London. The Meenambakkam AWPS police identified the suspect as Jawas George of Anna Nagar, who worked as a software engineer in Ireland. “The incident took place on […]
Category: Civil Aviation
Pilot crisis: Vistara flyers stranded in Bengaluru for 13 hrs
KOCHI ; Over 80 passengers of Vistara Airline flight to Kochi were stranded at Bengaluru airport for almost 13 hours after the aircraft, scheduled for take-off at 7.30pm on Monday, did not take off for want of pilots. The flight UK505 left for Kochi only by 8.30am on Tuesday with the Tata-owned Vistara offering no […]
DGCA asks Vistara to submit daily report on flight cancellations, delays
NEW DELHI: Aviation watchdog DGCA has asked Vistara to submit a daily report on flight cancellations as well as delays, and is also monitoring the situation to ensure minimum inconvenience to passengers. The move comes against the backdrop of non-availability of pilots forcing Vistara to cancel a significant number of flights in recent days.
DGCA steps in as vistara faces crisis
NEW DELHI: From being the most acclaimed airline to cancelling over 100 flights in two days, full-service carrier Vistara is facing massive turbulence ahead of its merger with Air India, as currently there are not enough pilots to operate its flights. The condition at the airline has turned so severe that the aviation ministry and […]
Vistara sees significant flight cancellations; to cut operations due to non-availability of pilots
Bengaluru: Vistara flights across the country, including Bengaluru, suffered massive delays on Monday due to various reasons, including crew shortage. A flight from Bengaluru to Ahmedabad was delayed by 6.5 hours forcing many to cancel their trip. Vistara has now announced that it would be temporarily reducing some flights across the country.
Vistara flyers see red due to huge delays, airline to reduce flights
BENGALURU: Vistara flights across the country, including Bengaluru, suffered massive delays on Monday due to various reasons, including crew shortage. A Bengaluru-Ahmedabad flight was delayed by 6.5 hours, forcing many to cancel their trip. Vistara has now announced that it would be temporarily reducing some flights across the country. Flight UK 574 was scheduled to […]
Healthy, tough competition in Indian aviation market; price sensitive too: IndiGo CEO
NEW DELHI: There is healthy and tough competition in the Indian market, which is also price sensitive, the country’s largest airline IndiGo’s chief Pieter Elbers said and emphasised that there is an enormous demand for travel. At the helm of the airline having a domestic market share of little over 60 per cent and more […]
IndiGo flights between Abu Dhabi, Kannur
CHENNAI: Budget airline IndiGo has announced new direct flights between Abu Dhabi and north Kerala district Kannur from May 9. Extending its international presence, the airline will operate daily non-stop flights from the coastal city of the southern state to the capital of the United Arab Emirates, the airline said in a release on Friday.
ISRO’s ‘Pushpak’ makes flawless landing in Karnataka’s Chitradurga
BENGALURU: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has added another feather to its cap by successfully demonstrating the autonomous landing capability of ‘Pushpak’, the Reusable Launch Vehicle (RLV), as part of its RLV-LEX 2 mission. The second experiment in the series was conducted at the Aeronautical Test Range (ATR) in Chitradurga, Karnataka, at 7.10 am […]
Japan Airlines buys 42 aircraft from Airbus, Boeing
TOKYO, JAPAN: Japan Airlines said Thursday that it is buying 42 airplanes from Boeing and Airbus as part of a drive to boost its international and domestic operations. 32 new aircraft from Airbus and 10 from Boeing in orders worth billions of dollars. The firm said it would “introduce a total of 21 Airbus A350-900 […]
Trial run for EFL to be conducted in Bapatla on March 18
GUNTUR: The officials of the Indian Air Force (IAF) and Bapatla district administration made elaborate arrangements for the trial run for landing of aircrafts at the Emergency Landing Facility (ELF), scheduled to be held on Monday from 9 am to 1 pm. The officials have already set up radars and other technical equipment to conduct […]
IAF successfully carries out trial run of 4.1-km ELR
GUNTUR: The Indian Air Force on Monday successfully carried out an emergency landing exercise at Pichikalagudipadu village in Korisapadu mandal of Baptla district. As part of the exercise aiming to strengthen strategic security of the country, two transport aircraft, including AN32 and Dornier, landed and two combat jets, Sukhoi Su 30 and Hawk AJT, flew […]