Category: Civil Aviation

Several airlines are opening their check-in counters earlier than usual at the Kolkata airport because of a sharp rise in the number of passengers and also because many fliers are reaching the airport late because of traffic snarls, prompting airlines to urge fliers to reach early. The airport has seen a surge in the number […]

Boeing Co will pay $200 million to settle charges that the company and its former CEO misled investors about the safety of its 737 Max after two of the airliners crashed, killing 346 people. The Securities and Exchange Commission said on Thursday that it charged the aircraft maker and former CEO Dennis Muilenburg with making […]

US authorities said Boeing and its former leader, Dennis Muilenburg, had “put profits over people” and misled investors about the safety of its 737 MAX planes after the 2018 and 2019 crashes. Aviation giant Boeing has agreed to pay $200 million (€203 million) to settle charges it misled investors over the safety of its 737 […]

Budget carrier SpiceJet will increase the salaries of pilots by 20 per cent in October, within days of asking about 80 pilots to go on leave without pay for three months as a temporary measure to rationalise costs, according to an internal communication of the carrier. The airline has also got the first instalment of […]

Aviation safety regulator DGCA has extended the cap on SpiceJet flights by a little over one month as a matter of “abundant caution”, according to an official order on Wednesday. The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) had on July 27 ordered SpiceJet to operate a maximum of 50 per cent of its flights, which […]

SpiceJet has asked about 80 of its pilots to go on a three-month leave without pay. The move is a temporary measure to rationalise cost, the airline said. “This measure, which is in line with SpiceJet’s policy of not retrenching any employee which the airline steadfastly followed even during the peak of the Covid pandemic, […]

A massive search operation was carried out by the police and CRPF in several forward villages along the International Border in Jammu and Kashmir’s Samba district following information about a suspected drone activity, a senior police official said on Sunday. However, nothing objectionable was found during the operation which started around 7:30 pm on Saturday […]

The Indian Air Force’s Surya Kiran planes zipped across the Bhubaneswar sky on Friday, painting the horizon with different hues. Thousands of spectators, who had gathered for the air show on the banks of river Kuakhai, a tributary of the Mahanadi, on the outskirts of the city, were mesmerised by the show. The blue sky […]

Air India is aiming for a domestic market share of 30 per cent and will significantly strengthen its international operations in the next five years. The airline is putting in place a transformation plan after gathering feedback from its staff. The carrier, which plans to induct 30 wide-body and narrow-body aircraft, on Thursday announced ‘Vihaan.AI’ […]

All aircraft personnel, including pilots and cabin crew members, will have to undergo breath analyser test from October 15 onwards, with the DGCA lifting the related curbs that were in place due to the pandemic. Amid the pandemic, the breath analyser test that is done to check whether any crew member has consumed alcohol, was […]

As many as 151 people were evacuated from an Air India Express plane at the Muscat airport on Wednesday after fire and smoke were noticed in one of the engines and aviation regulator DGCA is probing the incident, according to officials. The incident happened when the Kochi-bound Boeing 737-800 aircraft was taxiing at the airport. […]

Qantas airways on Wednesday launched a new route from Bengaluru (BLR) to Sydney (SYD), providing the first direct connection between southern India and Australia by any airline. QF68 will cut nearly three hours off the current fastest travel time between the two cities and significantly boost connectivity between India and New South Wales, Australia’s national […]