Category: Civil Aviation

The sixth flight carrying 240 stranded Indian nationals has departed from Hungary’s Budapest for Delhi under Operation Ganga, informed External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Monday. “Sixth Operation Ganga flight from Budapest has taken off with 240 Indian nationals for Delhi. Evacuation efforts continue to get stronger,” read Jaishankar’s tweet. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Narendra Modi […]

SpiceJet will operate a special flight to Hungarian capital Budapest on Friday to evacuate Indians who have been stranded in Ukraine due to the Russian military offensive. India on Saturday began evacuation of its citizens from Romania and Hungary countries sharing land borders with Ukraine as the Ukrainian airspace has been closed since February 24 […]

Air India’s two evacuation flights came from Romanian capital Bucharest and Hungarian capital Budapest to Delhi on Monday with 489 Indian nationals who were stranded in Ukraine after the Russian military offensive, officials said. Other private carriers such as SpiceJet, IndiGo and Air India Express have also sent their planes to the two cities for […]

SpiceJet, Air India Express and IndiGo will operate special flights from Hungarian capital Budapest and Romania’s Bucharest on Monday and Tuesday to evacuate Indians stranded in Ukraine due to the Russian military offensive. India on Saturday began the evacuation of its citizens from Romania and Hungary — countries sharing borders with Ukraine — as the […]

Three more flights are scheduled to evacuate Indian nationals from Ukraine in the next 24 hours amid the ongoing situation in the country, said Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Arindam Bagchi. “Over the next 24 hours, three more flights are scheduled –two from Bucharest (Romania), which will land in Mumbai and Delhi and one flight […]

India managed to accelerate its efforts to get its nationals out of Ukraine in the last 24 hours, though the situation on the ground continues to be “complex and fluid” in terms of evacuation of people, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said on Monday. It said a total of 1,396 Indians were brought back […]

Air India Express, the low-cost international budget arm of Air India, has said it is operating a flight to Bucharest in Romania to fly back the Indian evacuees from war-torn Ukraine. Air India Express flight, IX-1201, which departed from the city’s Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport at 1.50 pm on Monday, is expected to arrive […]

The suspension of scheduled international passenger flights in the country has been extended “till further orders”, aviation regulator DGCA said on Monday. On January 19, the suspension was extended till February 28. Scheduled international passenger flights have been suspended in India since March 23, 2020, following the outbreak of the coronavirus. However, special passenger flights […]

Scheduled international commercial passenger services to and from India will remain suspended till further orders, the Director-General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) said on Monday. In partial modification of circular dated 26.11.2021, the competent authority has decided to extend the suspension of scheduled international commercial passenger services to/from India till further orders. This restriction shall not […]

Airbus hit back in an escalating dispute with Qatar Airways over A350 jets on Monday, asking a British judge to award $220 million in damages over two undelivered airliners. The planemaker’s claim for two A350s that Qatar’s national carrier has rejected comes after the airline sued Airbus for $600 million over degradation on more than […]

European nations and Canada moved on Sunday to shut their airspace to Russian aircraft, an unprecedented step aimed at pressuring President Vladimir Putin to end his invasion of Ukraine, the biggest attack on a European state since World War Two. The ban on Russian jets comes as the airline industry continues to grapple with the […]

The European Union plans to close its airspace to Russian airlines, fund weapons purchase to Ukraine and ban some pro-Kremlin media outlets in its latest response to Russia’s invasion, European Commission officials said Sunday. The measures, which Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said she expected to be endorsed, would mark the first time the […]