Holiday travel headaches and safety worries swelled with thousands of flights cancelled, events scrapped and new Omicron cases soaring, as people wrap up Christmas celebrations bruised by a resurgent Covid-19 pandemic. Some 8,300 flights have been grounded and tens of thousands more delayed from Friday through Sunday — one of the busiest travel periods of […]
Category: Civil Aviation
US airlines continue to cancel flights due to bad weather, sick crews
Flight cancellations that disrupted holiday travel stretched into Monday, with major U.S. airlines each canceling dozens of flights. Staffers calling out sick because of COVID-19, particularly since the emergence of the omnicron variant, have left airlines short in recent days. According to FlightAware, which tracks flight cancellations, airlines have canceled roughly 4,000 flights to, from […]
Tata’s Air India win to Zee-Sony deal: 2021, year that was for businesses
ROUND TRIP With a Rs 18,000-crore bid, the Tatas were back in the Air India cockpit this October, 68 years after the airline they founded in 1932 was nationalised. The deal marked the end of years of struggle to privatise the heavily indebted state carrier. This was also the first privatisation in India in almost […]
AirAsia India, SpiceJet make discount offers to spur ticket bookings
Domestic airlines AirAsia India and SpiceJet launched discount schemes on Monday, offering tickets upwards of Rs 1,122. Bookings can be made between December 27 and 31 and the discount is for tickets between January 15 and April 15. The move is expected to stimulate forward bookings amid the Omicron scare that has led to increased […]
BOC Aviation Ltd delivers eight Airbus A320Neo aircraft to IndiGo
BOC Aviation Limited has delivered the last of eight Airbus A320NEO aircraft to InterGlobe Aviation Ltd (IndiGo) under a purchase-and-leaseback agreement signed earlier this year. The aircraft is powered by CFM Leap engines, according to a statement. Steven Townend, deputy managing director and chief financial officer of the Singapore-based BOC Aviation, said, “The delivery of […]
GMR Infra surges 12% on signing pact for Medan Airport in Indonesia
Shares of GMR Infrastructure surged 12 per cent to Rs 47.95 on the BSE in Monday’s intra-day trade after the GMR Group signed shareholders agreement with Indonesia’s Angkasa Pura II for the development of Medan Airport on December 23. The company engaged in airport services business had made announcement on Friday after market hours. The […]
Dues of four airlines to AAI rose over twofold since January 2020
Dues of four major domestic airlines — IndiGo, SpiceJet, Go First and AirAsia India — to the Airports Authority of India (AAI) more than doubled between January 2020 and October 2021, according to internal AAI documents. Air India, however, continues to be the domestic carrier with the highest amount of dues to the AAI. As […]
US airlines scrap nearly 1,000 Christmas Day flights due to Omicron
US airlines scrapped nearly 1,000 flights on Saturday, the second straight day of massive cancellations as surging Covid-19 infections have sidelined some pilots and other crew members, upending plans for tens of thousands of holiday travelers over the Christmas weekend. A total of 957 Christmas Day flights, including domestic flights and those into or out […]
3,000 flights cancelled worldwide due to Covid-19 staffing issues: Reports
Nearly 3,000 flights have been cancelled worldwide as airlines cite COVID-19 staffing issues, according to reports. United Airlines confirmed that more than 100 flights that were scheduled for Christmas Eve have been canceled by the company as it grapples with the spread of the omicron variant, according to the Hill. So far, 4,604 flights have […]
Omicron surge: United and Delta cancel hundreds of Christmas flights
Air carriers scrapped more than 400 US flights Friday, led by United Airlines and Delta Air Lines, as surging Covid infections and the prospects of bad weather disrupted Christmas Eve travel. In Germany, Lufthansa also cancelled several flights. The global tally exceeded 2,000 trips, according to data tracker FlightAware.com. China Eastern and Air China ranked […]
Seven-day home quarantine in Mumbai for passengers arriving from Dubai
Passengers arriving from Dubai will have to take up seven-day home quarantine in Mumbai, said an order by the western city’s municipality on Friday. While passengers from twelve “countries at risk” are required to undergo home quarantine as per central government directions, the BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) extended the home quarantine for Dubai returnees to […]
Air India Express to start flights on Indore-Sharjah route from Mar 27
Air India Express will start operating flights on Indore-Sharjah route from March 27 next year, Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia said on Friday. On October 8, the Centre had announced that Talace Private Limited — a wholly-owned subsidiary of Tata Sons — has won the bid to acquire Air India and its subsidiary Air India Express. […]