Embattled liquor baron Vijay Mallya, who is fighting against his extradition to India, on Thursday asked the government to accept his offer to repay 100 per cent of his loan dues and close case against him. While congratulating the Indian government over the ₹20 lakh crore economic package, Mallya lamented that his repeated offers to […]
Category: Civil Aviation
SpiceJet operates maiden freighter flight with medical supplies to Philippines
SpiceJet has operated its maiden freighter flight carrying 17 tonne of critical medical and essential supplies from Kolkata to Cebu, a province in the Philippines. With this flight, SpiceJet has added the Philippines to its international cargo network. The airline deployed a Boeing 737 freighter aircraft, which departed for Cebu from Kolkata’s Netaji Subhash Chandra […]
Why it does not make sense for IndiGo to buy Virgin Australia
Delhi-based low-cost airline IndiGo has clarified that it is not in talks to pick up a stake in Virgin Australia (VA). In a statement to the media, Ronojoy Dutta, Wholetime Director and Chief Executive Officer, IndiGo said: “We deny the contents of these reports and would like to clarify that IndiGo has not formulated any […]
Air India office shuts for two days after staff member tested Covid-19 positive
The headquarter of Air India in Delhi have been shut for two days after one of the staff members contracted the novel coronavirus. Now, all the staff, including the Chairman and Managing Director Pradeep Singh Kharola, will work from home, the national carrier said on Tuesday to NDTV. Currently, the headquarter is being sanitized. According […]
Vande Bharat Mission Phase-2: 149 flights to fetch stranded Indians from 31 countries
A total of 149 flights will bring back stranded Indians from 31 countries over seven days in the second phase of `Vande Bharat Mission’ to be launched on May 16, according to a source. “The number of stranded Indians to be brought back in the second phase has not been estimated yet by the government, […]
Chinese helicopters spotted along Sino-India border in Eastern Ladakh: Sources
Chinese helicopters were spotted flying close to the undemarcated border between India and China in Eastern Ladakh, after around 250 soldiers of both sides were engaged in a fierce face-off near Pangong Lake in the area last week, official sources said. The situation in the area remained tense after the violent clashes between the troops […]
SpiceJet airlifts Kerala’s fresh farm produce to domestic and overseas markets
SpiceJet is contributing in a big way to support Kerala’s farmers by transporting record quantities of fresh farm produce and supporting the government’s ‘KrishiUdan’ initiative. Lending a helping hand to farmers and ensuring that the supply chain remains intact and farmers get to transport and export their produce in a timely and efficient manner during […]
SpiceJet carries 225 tonnes of shrimp from Visakhapatnam during lockdown
SpiceJet is transporting record quantities of shrimps from Visakhapatnam and supporting the government’s ‘Marine Krishi Udaan’ initiative. SpiceJet launched dedicated freighter flights on February 25 to ferry shrimps. The airline has transported 225 tonnes of shrimp from Visakhapatnam during the lockdown phase till May 8, carrying 138 mt on Vishakhapatnam-Surat route and 87 mt on […]
Hyderabad International Airport to introduce contactless terminal entry once lockdown ends
Hyderabad International Airport is deploying contactless entry at the airport terminal for the safety of passengers once it resumes operations post the Covid-19 lockdown. While the new norms of social distancing are in place, the airport has added contactless entry. Under the process, instead of handing over the physical documents — travel itinerary and government […]
Hyderabad airport receives second evacuation flight from US
Hyderabad International Airport handled its second evacuation flight from the US — an Air India from San Francisco which arrived via Mumbai today with 118 Indian citizens. GMR Hyderabad International Airport will receive another batch of Indian citizens from Abu Dhabi (UAE), who will arrive on an Air India flight at around 9.30 pm today. […]
Lockdown: Air India flight brings home 239 Indians from UK
An Air India flight landed here from London at 1.30 am on Sunday carrying 239 Indians from the UK who were stranded there due to suspension of commercial passenger air services and the subsequent lockdown, an official statement said. In addition to this, two more repatriation flights — one each from Singapore and Manila ( […]
Times are a-changin: Aviation Minster quotes Bob Dylan to describe flying amidst Covid-19
Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri quoted a line from Bob Dylan’s famous song “The Times They Are a-Changin” on a photo tweeted by him of the expatriates who had been airlifted from Singapore. Puri wrote on the microblogging site: “The times they are a changing! Not a scene from a sci-fi blockbuster but a […]