Hyderabad International Airport facilitated the first arrival evacuation flight from Kuwait on Saturday. This is the first flight to Hyderabad and is part of the Government’s Vande Bharat Mission. The mission aims to evacuate stranded Indians across the globe, and bring them back home, due to the Coronavirus pandemic. An Air India flight landed at […]
Category: Civil Aviation
Airlines ready for contactless flying, post Covid
While airlines are not keen on leaving a seat vacant in between rows to ensure social distancing, they are readying alternative plans for starting post-covid flying operations once the lockdown is lifted. This includes health check-up prior to boarding for fever symptoms, minimising touchpoints of contact between customers and crew, reducing meal choices and withdrawing […]
125 flights likely in second phase of evacuation
India plans to operate over 105 flights during the second phase of evacuation of Indians abroad, which is scheduled to begin on May 16 and is expected to last for a week. There could be as many as 15-20 flights which could touch two Indian cities on their return here. In such a case, the […]
IndiGo introduces leave-without-pay for senior employees
IndiGo is implementing a limited-graded leave-without-pay programme for three months till July, the airline said in a mail to its employees. The move will have no impact on a majority of its employees, it added. “Given the gradual build-up of capacity, I am afraid we have to take the additional painful step of implementing a […]
Lufthansa group airlines to restart schedules to more destinations in Germany, Europe from June
Starting in June, Lufthansa, Eurowings and SWISS will offer monthly restart schedules to significantly more destinations in Germany and Europe than they have in the past few weeks. The repatriation schedules will end on May 31. A total of 80 aircraft will be reactivated in the June timetable to serve a total of 106 destinations. […]
Emirates to raise debt as it braces for most difficult months ever
Emirates, one of the world’s biggest long-haul airlines, said on Sunday it will raise debt to help it through the coronavirus pandemic and may have to take tougher measures as it faces the most difficult months in its history. The state-owned airline, which suspended regular passenger flights in March due to the virus outbreak that […]
Air India ready to fly Indian seafarers overseas to join ships
Air India said it is agreeable to take Indian seafarers to USA, UK and Singapore to help them join ships on work, while flying to various overseas destinations to bring back Indian nationals stranded abroad. But, thousands of Indian seafarers stranded in various ports/locations across the globe are yet to be allowed to fly on […]
Covid-19: First batches of West Asia evacuees land in Kerala
The Kerala State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) deployed its buses, and several cabs were pressed into service to move the 363 passengers from the West Asia who arrived at Kochi and Kozhikode as part of the Vande Bharat Mission on Thursday night. The mission to lift stranded Non-Resident Keralites in the wake of the global […]
Passenger traffic to witness de-growth in FY2021: ICRA
Domestic passenger traffic is expected to witness a de-growth of 41-46 per cent in FY2021 with first half of FY2021 witnessing a sharper de-growth followed by some recovery in second half of FY2021, as the airlines resume operations in a phased manner from June 2020. Furthermore, the impact of the Covid-19 outbreak will last longer […]
Jet Airways’ CoC vote against paying one month’s salary to remaining employees
The Committee of Creditors (CoC) of Jet Airways has once again voted against paying one month’s salary to the airline’s remaining employees. The airline staff have not been paid for several months as the lenders have repeatedly refused to give any additional funds. The airline is also in the midst of taking a few cost-cutting […]
Jet Airways seeks permission to fly three aircraft for cargo operations
Professional (RP) has written to the Ministry of Civil Aviation (MoCA), seeking permission to use three Boeing 777 passenger aircraft in its fleet for cargo operations in the wake of the pandemic. According to sources, MoCA has responded saying that it will “consider” the request. However, it may be a non-starter, as the approval process […]
Aviation to record revenue loss of Rs 25,000 crore, structural changes likely: CRISIL
India’s aviation industry will crash-land this fiscal with a revenue loss of Rs 24,000–25,000 crore, according to CRISIL. In its advisory, CRISIL stated that airlines will be the worst-affected, contributing more than 70 per cent of the losses, or Rs 17,000 crore, followed by airport operators with Rs 5,000-5,500 crore, and airport retailers (including retail, […]