Category: Civil Aviation

TIRUPATI: Passenger traffic at Tirupati international airport is gradually gaining momentum coinciding with the overall decline in Covid-19 positive cases and easing of curbs by most states. At least 16 flights have reported a 30 per cent increase in occupancy. According to the traffic report of Airports Authority of India’s (AAI), domestic passenger traffic rose […]

Hyderabad: Bengaluru-based GMR Group and Paris-based airport developer and operator Groupe ADP have tied up to leverage on each other’s expertise and resources, so as to further improve their services and product offerings to passengers and airlines. In a statement here on Tuesday, the GMR Group said the partnership will focus on improving passenger experience, […]

Krishna: With the extended runway likely to become operational from July 15, Vijayawada International Airport near Gannavaram is gearing up to start international flights. Krishna district collector J Nivas on Wednesday inspected the airport expansion works and held a review meeting with airport and revenue authorities.

Kochi: The Cochin International Airport Ltd (CIAL) on Wednesday won the Airport Council International’s (ACI) Director General’s Roll of Excellence honour for Airport Service Quality. The ACI, a global body of airport operators established the Roll of Excellence recognition to those airports which, in the opinion of the passengers, have consistently delivered excellent services in […]

KURNOOL: To celebrate the inaugural flight arriving amid much ceremony at the Uyyalawada Narasimha Reddy Kurnool airport, finance minister Buggana Rajendranath Reddy said that south India’s biggest industrial park will come up around the facility at a cost of Rs 800 crore. About 7,000 acres of land has been acquired for the purpose, he pointed […]

Dismissal of its petition against the Union government’s decision to lease Thiruvananthapuram international airport to Adani Enterprises by the Kerala High Court on Monday turned out to be a major setback for the Kerala government. The major verdict was delivered by the HC division bench of Justices K Vinod Chandran and C S Dias. The […]

Chennai: Domestic passenger traffic in the aviation sector has registered a sequential growth of 37 per cent in September. However, on a year-on-year basis, it is still down 66 per cent. Domestic passenger traffic in September grew to 39 lakh passengers, up 37 per cent from August. In terms of capacity deployment too, the aviation […]

Chennai: Revenues in the civil aviation sector have dropped by 85 per cent since the coronavirus lockdown. The sector also shed more than 18,000 jobs during the same period. The Covid-19 lockdown reduced air traffic to a fraction of what it was prior to the pandemic. Regulatory restrictions on flight operations by domestic and international […]

Skateboarders, surfers and mountain bikers used to be the target customers for California startup Skydio, a maker of high-end drones that can home in on people and capture their movements on video all by themselves. Now police officers, firefighters and soldiers are interested in the self-flying machines. That’s partly because US national security concerns about […]

CHICAGO: United Airlines is preparing to furlough 16,370 workers when federal aid expires on Oct. 1 as the coronavirus pandemic continues to devastate the airline industry, it said on Wednesday. Chicago-based United had over 90,000 employees before the pandemic brought the industry to a near standstill in March. It warned in July that 36,000 jobs […]

New York: Getting an Amazon package delivered from the sky is closer to becoming a reality. The Federal Aviation Administration said Monday it had granted Amazon approval to deliver packages by drones.