Category: Civil Aviation

New Delhi: Air India on Tuesday stated that pilgrims returning from Saudi Arabia after Haj will be allowed to carry holy water from the Zamzam well within the permissible baggage allowance. The well of Zamzam is located in Mecca in Saudi Arabia and many Haj pilgrims bring the holy water from the well for family […]

Mumbai: As part of its investigation into the IndiGo Airlines affairs, markets regulator Sebi has sought details from the airline’s parent firm InterGlobe Aviation regarding a complaint filed by co-founder Rakesh Gangwal alleging irregularities in the running of the firm. Gangwal, who founded the airline with Rahul Bhatia, has sought Sebi’s intervention in addressing his […]

New Delhi: Shares of InterGlobe Aviation tumbled 10 per cent Wednesday amid spat between co-promoters over governance issues. The scrip dropped to Rs 1,409.20 on the BSE in early trade. On the NSE it fell to Rs 1,409.70. InterGlobe Aviation is the parent of country’s largest airline IndiGo.

New Delhi: A Delhi High Court on Tuesday refused to allow Jet Airways founder Naresh Goyal to leave India and sought response of the Centre on his plea challenging a look out circular issued against him. Justice Suresh Kait said no interim relief can be granted to Goyal at this stage and added that he […]

New Delhi: Differences between the promoters of the country’s largest airline IndiGo came into public on Tuesday with Rakesh Gangwal alleging serious governance lapses by co-founder Rahul Bhatia who had earlier termed his demands as unreasonable. With the issues brewing for nearly a year, Gangwal has sought markets regulator Sebi’s intervention to address the problems.

Hyderabad: A woman journalist working with a daily in Hyderabad was allegedly molested by a male co-passenger while getting down from an Indigo flight at the Shamshabad airport. The victim complained to the RGI Airport police, who registered a case and are on the job to nab the passenger. Tweeting about the issue after complaining […]

Mumbai: Fearing for their jobs, the over a dozen employees and officers unions of Air India on Monday came out strongly against the government’s second bid to sell the financially-crippled national carrier, union sources said after a meeting with the management. Acting quickly on the budget announcement, Air India chairman Ashwani Lohani had called on […]

Not only major airports but even smaller airports can now have automatic landings for aircraft. This comes after researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and TU Braunschweig demonstrated a complete automatic landing with vision assisted navigation that functions properly without the need for ground-based systems.

Hyderabad: About 1,500 people had to wait for more than five to six hours at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport in Hyderabad as 13 flights from different destinations to Mumbai were diverted to the city due to the incessant rain at the destination. Five flights from Hyderabad were cancelled and the airlines had informed the […]

Dubai: The Indian Rupee will now be accepted for transaction at all airports in Dubai, according to a leading newspaper in the United Arab Emirates. The acceptance of Indian currency is good news for tourists from that country as earlier they lost a sizeable amount due to exchange rates, sources said.

New Delhi: Budget carrier IndiGo employs around 50 per cent of the total number of foreign pilots working in India, data presented by Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday showed. A total of 404 foreign pilots are working in India as of June 10 this year, it stated.

Mumbai: Lenders of Jet Airways may have badly hit by the grounding of the country’s oldest private sector airline, but its misfortune has turned out to be a boon for the airline’s competitors like SpiceJet and InterGlobe Aviation. In the December-March quarter of FY19, both Indigo and SpiceJet reported strong top line growth on the […]