CHENNAI: The Madras High Court on Friday rejected a plea from Air Corporation Employees Union to restrain the Union Ministry of Civil Aviation from disinvesting its 100 per cent shares in Air India Limited to Tata Group without taking appropriate measures to protect the terms and conditions of service and the rights of the employees. […]
Category: Civil Aviation
‘Deadline for global air operations not easy’: Domestic carriers on resuming normal foreign flights
NEW DELHI: Restarting international operations by March 27 is proving to be an uphill task for domestic carriers because they would have to overhaul and reschedule their operations. Considering the time they have, it is going to be an organisational and logistical challenge.
Alliance Air’s aircraft overshoots runway at Jabalpur airport; DGCA begins probe
NEW DELHI/ JABALPUR: An Alliance Air flight from Delhi carrying 55 passengers overshot the runway while landing at the Jabalpur airport on Saturday afternoon, officials of aviation regulator DGCA said. None of the passengers or crew members were injured, they said, adding that the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has started an investigation. The […]
Alliance Air flight skids off runway at Jabalpur airport, passengers safe
BHOPAL: A major accident was averted in Madhya Pradesh after an Alliance Air aircraft with 55 passengers on board skidded off the runway at Jabalpur airport on Saturday. As per the information received, an Alliance Air ATR-72 aircraft skidded off the runaway while landing, but fortunately no injury was caused to any crew member or […]
Medical emergency mid-air forces diversion of Bengaluru-Kolkata AirAsia India flight; passenger dies
BENGALURU: An AirAsia India flight carrying 169 passengers from Bengaluru to Kolkata has to be diverted to Bhubaneshwar mid-way after a 33-year-old male passenger developed health issues onboard. He was rushed to a hospital after the flight reached the airport but was declared dead. Flight No I5 2472 took off at 6.20 am from Bengaluru. […]
India to resume regular international flights from March 27: Scindia
INDORE: Union Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia on Sunday said that regular international flights will resume from March 27 as the coronavirus situation in India has improved now. Due to the outbreak of COVID -19, scheduled international flight services were suspended on March 23, 2020.
Vizag-Singapore flight five days a week from March 27
VISAKHAPATNAM: The Visakhapatnam airport hosted 1.48 lakh flyers in February, marginally higher than 1.40 lakh in January. It, however, handled 216 lesser flights last month than 1,586 in January. “Although rising, the passenger footfall are yet to reach the December figures, which were around 8,500 per day. Now footfalls are hovering between 6,000 and 7,000 […]
IGI best airport for the fourth consecutive year
NEW DELHI: Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport was on Friday recognised as the ‘Best Airport by Size and Region’ in the Asia-Pacific region for the fourth consecutive year, its operator Delhi International Airport Limited (DIAL) said. IGIA has received this Airport Service Quality (ASQ) recognition for 2021 from Airports Council International (ACI) in the category […]
Youth seek sustainable initiatives from aviation business: BIAL CEO
BENGALURU: Bangalore International Airport Limited CEO and Managing Director Hari K Marar on Saturday said that the aviation sector must strive towards becoming both socially-inclusive and sustainable. Addressing a conference on aviation and aerospace, he elaborated that while the former is a result of India’s diverse nature, the latter is because the younger generations are […]
Flight from Bengaluru diverted to Odisha, passenger dies
BENGALURU: An AirAsia India flight, carrying 169 passengers from Bengaluru to Kolkata, had to be diverted to Bhubaneswar mid-way after a 33-year-old male passenger developed health issues onboard. He was rushed to a hospital after the flight reached the airport and was declared brought dead. Flight No I5 2472 took off at 6.20 am from […]
New messaging tech to ease operations at Chennai airport
CHENNAI: A new message switching mechanism (IP-AMSS – Internet Protocol Automatic Message Switching System) for the Chennai Airport was inaugurated here on Saturday. The new system will improve safety and efficiency of operations at the airport by ensuring timely exchange of significant aeronautical, flight, and weather related messages. “The earlier system had many limitations in […]
International flights to take off from March 27, but airlines wonder if business will
NEW DELHI: Restarting international flights by March 27 is proving to be an uphill task for domestic carriers as they would have to completely overhaul and reschedule all their operations. “Our load factors were just about picking up in the domestic sector and restarting international operations would mean restructuring all our ongoing operations. For instance, […]