Category: Civil Aviation

Bengaluru: Kempegowda International Airport, Bengaluru is back to pre-COVID passenger levels owing to the high traffic numbers recorded in the current financial year (2022-23) until October 26. Passenger traffic volumes registered over 102 per cent growth in domestic travel and about 85 per cent growth in international travel in October 2022, as compared to October […]

HYDERABAD: GE Aerospace and Tata Advanced Systems said on Friday that they have extended the manufacturing agreement under terms of which TASL will continue to produce and supply several commercial aircraft engine components to GE’s global engine manufacturing factories.

The Adani group will invest about Rs 10,000 crore in the Ahmedabad airport between 2023 and 2027 to augment its passenger handling capacity by three times, making it a regional hub. In a presentation to investors last week, the Adani group executives said the Ahmedabad airport will be made a regional hub connecting airports such […]

HYDERABAD: The Director General of Civil Aviation, investigating the emergency landing of SpiceJet Flight SG 3735 from Goa, with 86 persons on-board at RGIA on October 12, after smoke was noticed in the cockpit in its preliminary report, said that engine oil was found in the engine bleeding valve.

MUMBAI: The Tata Group has started an exercise to evaluate options to consolidate AirAsia India and Vistara under Air India to bring operational synergies among the three airlines under its umbrella, sources said. Air India, which the group had taken control of in January after winning the bid to acquire the national carrier for Rs […]

Mumbai: Breaking its own single-day record, Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport (CSMIA), one of the world’s busiest single runway airports, handled the highest passenger movement of 1,30,374 on September 17, 2022, the highest since the pandemic, said the airport officials. The growth in traffic is a result of newer destinations, rising flight movements and an […]

Main Chennai Airport runway to be extended The main runway at the Meenambakkam airport is set to be extended to 4.058 km paving the way for wide-bodied aircraft like the Airbus A-380 series, which has three decks of floors, to use the international airport, where passenger traffic had been increasing by the day, forcing the […]

WARANGAL / KARIMNAGAR: The decades-long dream of air connectivity to united Warangal and Karimnagar districts is to become a reality with two old airfields scheduled to be developed by union government under the new UDAN (Ude Desh ka Aam Nagrik) scheme. The airports are Mamnoor on outskirts of Warangal city and Basant Nagar in Peddapalli […]

Kolkata: Defence PSU Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) is going to expand it’s presence in Malaysia to bag overseas contracts from South East Asia. It has signed an MoU for establishing an office in Kuala Lumpur in presence of defence secretary Dr. Ajay Kumar. The MoU was signed by HAL GM (Light Combat Aircraft) Mr Ravi […]

New Delhi: Another Indian flight, a Hyderabad-bound IndiGo airliner from Sharjah was diverted to Pakistan’s Karachi airport after the pilot reported a technical defect. “IndiGo flight 6E-1406, operating from Sharjah to Hyderabad was diverted to Karachi. The pilot observed a technical defect. Necessary procedures were followed and as a precaution, the aircraft was diverted to […]

HYDERABAD: Citizens of Hyderabad could be in for a roaring treat in the skies over the city on Saturday with the famous Suryakiran, the Indian Air Force’s aerobatics team, planning a fly-past over various parts of the city. The Suryakiran team is in the city to take part in the ministry of defence’s celebrations marking […]

Mangaluru: The maiden IndiGo flight from Pune arrived at the Mangaluru International Airport at 12.42 am on Monday.