Category: Civil Aviation

New Delhi: Air India has reduced monthly allowances of its employees who have a monthly gross salary of more than Rs 25,000 by up to 50 per cent, according to an internal order of the company. The order, dated July 22, said basic salary and allowances linked to it like industrial dearness allowance (IDA) and […]

BENGALURU: IndiGo, India’s biggest airline, said it will cut 10% of its workforce as it grapples with declining revenues due to the fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic. Airlines around the world have been hammered by a slump in travel demand due to restrictions aimed at containing the coronavirus outbreak, and few expect a quick recovery.

Nellore: Timely information given by Tirupati International Airport authorities about an overturned fire-fighting unit on the runway averted a possible disaster on Sunday. As a result, an Indigo aircraft, Flight E-6 with 30 passengers bound for Tirupati from Hyderabad, was diverted to Bengaluru. Tirupati airport director S. Suresh said the fire-fighting unit overturned around 9 […]

New Delhi: India is planning to buy from Israel Heron surveillance drones and fire-and-forget anti-tank guided missiles Spike to enhance its surveillance and firepower capability at a time when the tensions with China are at all-time high. Due to tension with China, India needs to increase its surveillance along the line of actual control (LAC) […]

New Delhi: Air India has started the process of identifying employees, based on various factors like efficiency, health and redundancy, who will be sent on compulsory leave without pay (LWP) for up to five years, according to an official order. The airline’s board of directors have authorised its Chairman and Managing Director Rajiv Bansal to […]

New Delhi: Boeing has completed delivery of all new AH-64E Apache and CH-47F(I) Chinook military helicopters to the Indian Air Force (IAF). The final five of the 22 Apache attack helicopters were handed over to the IAF at Air Force Station, Hindan. Earlier in March, Boeing handed over the last five of 15 CH-47F(I) Chinook […]

Air India has withdrawn job offers for around 180 trainee cabin crew members amid the economic slowdown in the Indian aviation sector due to the coronavirus pandemic, said airline officials on Saturday. “The airline has taken a decision to withdraw job offers for about 180 trainees who were to join as cabin crew after completing […]

New Delhi: IndiGo said on Thursday it will give a 25 percent discount on the airfare to doctors and nurses till the end of 2020 as they are at the forefront of the battle against the coronavirus pandemic. IndiGo has termed the aforementioned scheme as a “Tough Cookie” campaign.

Mumbai: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Thursday registered a case against Dr G. Venkata Krishna (GVK) Reddy, chairman of the GVK Group of companies, and his son G.V. Sanjay Reddy, the managing director of Mumbai International Airport Ltd (MIAL), and few others, for alleged irregularities worth Rs 705 crore in the running of […]

New Delhi: The GVK Group of Companies and Mumbai International Airport Ltd is under the radar for alleged irregularities in running of the airport, officials said. Airports Authority of India (AAI) Ltd had formed a Joint Venture with GVK Airports Holdings Limited, promoted by GVK group under public private partnership firm Mumbai International Airport Ltd […]

London: German carrier Lufthansa said on Thursday it will slash 22,000 jobs as it struggles to deal with the downturn in air travel caused by coronavirus pandemic. It said the positions of up to 26,000 employees are surplus to requirements, suggesting many more jobs will be cut at the cash-strapped airline than a figure of […]

Singapore: Air passenger demand globally will remain severely depressed in 2021 and will not see a substantial recovery before 2023, according to Moody’s Investors Service. Health concerns, changes in corporate travel policies, potential restrictions on international arrivals and lower discretionary spending because of weaker GDP and higher unemployment will constrain air passenger demand into 2022, […]