Category: Civil Aviation

The Income Tax department team is conducting survey operation at Naresh Goyal-controlled Jet Airways’ four business premises in New Delhi and Mumbai, said two persons in the know. According to I-T sources, the tax department is probing the airline for falsification of book of accounts, siphoning of funds and issue of suspicious bogus expenses booked […]

Citing economic constraints, Belgium’s national carrier Brussels Airlines will cease its Mumbai sector services from January 2019, it was announced here on Wednesday. The development comes barely 18 months after the airline launched the Mumbai-Brussels route in March 2017, its first-ever in the Indian sub-continent, and claimed good patronage among Indian leisure and business travellers. […]

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Sikkim on September 23 to inaugurate the state’s first airport at Pakyong, a senior official has said. After inaugurating the airport, the prime minister will address a public meeting at St. Xaviers School ground at Pakyong and return to New Delhi the same day, Chief Secretary A K Shrivastava […]

Delhi airport operator DIAL has served notices to address issues related to 176 obstacles including buildings, trees and light poles, around the aerodrome that could pose threat to flights landing and taking off from there. Following a directive from the Delhi High Court, the notices have been issued to the “owners/ occupants” of the 176 […]

For years, airlines have experimented with biofuels, aiming to reduce both carbon emissions and their reliance on fossil fuels. It’s been a turbulent journey buffeted by inconsistent investment and the periodic lure of cheap oil. But several major carriers are planning larger-scale usage of biofuel in 2019 and 2020, including JetBlue Airways Corp. and Cathay […]

In an all-out attack against the Congress, the BJP on Thursday alleged that the previous UPA government had given a “sweet deal” to the beleaguered Kingfisher Airlines to keep it afloat and suggested that the airline was perhaps owned by the Gandhi family. Attacking Rahul Gandhi at a press meet, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national […]

Singapore Technologies Engineering Ltd on Thursday said it had agreed to purchase aircraft part manufacturer MRA Systems from General Electric Co for $630 million. The Singapore-based company, which conducts maintenance and repair operations for airlines, said the deal would allow it to move upstream into the manufacturing and spare parts business for engine nacelles, the […]

An agreement was signed between the Uttar Pradesh government and private air carrier Spice Jet on Wednesday to fly on five new routes in the state, an official said. The new routes on which flights will begin after clearances from the Union Civil Aviation Ministry and the UP government are Varanasi-Kolkata, Varanasi-Bengaluru, Kanpur-Mumbai, Kanpur-Bengaluru and […]

No-frills airline SpiceJet will launch its dedicated air cargo services from September 18. The carrier, which is working on ambitious business plans, Monday said it would operate the cargo services under the brand name ‘SpiceXpress’ and has a detailed plan for domestic as well as international routes. SpiceJet would be the first schedule domestic airline […]

The Ministry of Civil Aviation is in the process of charting out a turnaround plan for the loss-making airline Air India, which has a huge debt of about Rs 55,000 crore, to make the airline stand on its own feet and privatise it when macro conditions improve, according to a report by The Indian Express. […]

The government is mulling strategic sale of Air India subsidiary AIATSL to raise funds and help cut debt of the national carrier, according to official sources. Strategic sale of Air India Air Transport Service (AIATSL), which provides ground handling services, is being planned as part of the turnaround scheme for Air India which is reeling […]

Low cost carrier SpiceJet has on a trial basis stopped taking hot meals for crew on its flights and will instead give cabin crew and pilots operating domestic flights a daily allowance of Rs 300 so that they can have hot meals at airport terminals or buy on board. The crew have been told if […]