New Delhi: Delhi International Airport Ltd (DIAL), a subsidiary of GMR Infrastructure, has exited from cargo services at the Delhi airport by selling its entire stake to India Infrastructure Fund for Rs 29 crore. “Accordingly as per the terms of definitive agreement and on completion of condition precedents, DIAL on March 16, 2015 has sold […]
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Civil Aviation
Jet-Etihad deal files leaked from finance ministry, finds CBI
NEW DELHI: Leakgate is getting bigger than what the CBI had initially thought with the agency putting several corporate professionals, middlemen and government officials under the scanner following revelations by those who have been arrested and voice samples collected by it. The CBI has found that papers related to the foreign investment promotion board’s (FIPB) […]
Delhi IGI’s terminal 1D to get country’s first body scanner
NEW DELHI: Delhi airport’s terminal 1D is all set to get India’s first body scanner. United States Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) will be giving a ‘millimetre wave scanner’ to IGI Airport which will be installed in the coming weeks. It will then be tested for “Indian conditions” by Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) […]
FIA seeks postponement of runway work at Goa airport
NEW DELHI: Voicing concern over the proposed runway re-carpeting work by Dabolim (Goa) International Airport authorities during peak tourists season, domestic airlines’ lobby the Federation of Indian Airlines (FIA) today sought postponement of the work by four months. Contending that the move would adversely impact all the stakeholders including the airlines and passengers, the FIA, […]
Indian air travellers unwilling to give up on free luggage, leg room privileges, says Expedia survey
Mumbai: A survey by online portal Expedia reveals that fewer Indian travellers don’t opt for a low cost carrier for medium to long haul trips. However, over 41% of participants said they would consider a LCC for flight of upto three hours duration. The Expedia LCC Airline Index polled 3200 air travellers in Asia Pacific […]
AirAsia ‘not giving up’, but hunt for bodies drawing to close
Sydney: AirAsia boss Tony Fernandes said today he was not giving up on finding more bodies from one of the airline’s jets that crashed in the Java Sea last year, but flagged the hunt will draw to a close within weeks More than 100 bodies and the black box recorders have been recovered since Flight […]
Air India flight delays evoke concern in Rajya Sabha
NEW DELHI: Delays in Air India flights due to lack of crew and trained staff today evoked concern in the Rajya Sabha, with a member claiming that the airline was operating planes for which its crew was not trained. Raising the issue of Air India’s “apathy”, Vivek Gupta of Trinamool Congress said the crew in […]
Court directs govt to reply to Chennai airport workers’ union petition
Chennai: The Madras High Court’s Division Bench today directed the Union of India and Ministry of Civil Aviation to file a reply to the Petition filed by the workers’ union of Chennai Airport which is protesting the government’s decision to privatise the airport. The development comes at time when eight private players including the Tata, […]
Airlines charging high fares; regulate them: MPs to Govt
NEW DELHI: A demand to regulate fares charged by airlines was made in Rajya Sabha today, with even the Chair joining members to say that the air carriers were selling air tickets at exorbitant rates. Raising the issue during Zero Hour, Rajeev Shukla (Cong) said private airlines were fixing fares “arbitrarily” and their tickets were […]
AirAsia announces direct flights to Visakhapatnam
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s low-cost airline AirAsia today announced the launch of three new routes, including the direct flights to Visakhapatnam in India. The thrice weekly Kuala Lumpur-Visakhapatnam direct flights would commence on May 7, according to a statement. The other two destinations are Pontianak and Medan in Indonesia. Visakhapatnam was an up and rising destination […]
Air India did not transfer profitable routes to private carriers in 3 years
NEW DELHI: Air India has not transferred any route to private airlines in the last three years and the national carrier’s liabilities have been on the rise, government said in Rajya Sabha today. “Air India did not transfer any domestic or international routes to any private airlines during the last three years,” Aviation Minister Ashok […]
DGCA comes across 39 safety norms violation cases this year
NEW DELHI: Thirty nine cases of safety norms violations involving six airlines have been detected by the DGCA so far this year and necessary action has been initiated in this regard, the government said today. Civil Aviation Minister Ashok Gajapathi Raju in a written reply to the Lok Sabha said there have been 39 instances […]