Mumbai: Go First airline’s lenders will vote on a proposal to liquidate the insolvent Indian airline, two banking sources told Reuters on Thursday, days after a deadline to bid for the company ended with no suitors. “The proposal whether or not to liquidate the airline has been floated and individual lenders will take the proposal […]
Category: Civil Aviation
AI Express plays down concerns of cabin crew about room sharing during layovers
New Delhi: Scores of cabin crew members of Air India Express have expressed concerns about the decision on room sharing during layovers, claiming that such a move poses various difficulties in getting uninterrupted rest before flight duty while the airline has said that room sharing is consistent with the market practice followed by many other […]
DGCA suspends RedBird’s authorisation to carry out maintenance of its planes
New Delhi: Aviation regulator DGCA on Wednesday said it has suspended the authorisation of RedBird Flight Training Academy for carrying out maintenance of its aircraft after finding deficiencies in an audit carried out in the wake of two incidents of crash landing last month. After the two incidents of aircraft crash landing within a span […]
DGCA imposes Rs 10L penalty on Air India for non-compliance with regulations
New Delhi: Aviation watchdog DGCA has imposed a penalty of Rs 10 lakh on Air India for its failure to comply with norms pertaining to facilities that are required to be provided to passengers. After carrying out inspections of airlines at Delhi, Kochi and Bangalore airports, the regulator observed that Air India was not complying […]
Uttarakhand tunnel rescue: IAF airlifts another 36 tonne of critical equipment
New Delhi: Employing a C-17 and two C-130J Super Hercules transport aircraft, the IAF airlifted 36 tonne of critical equipment on Monday, continuing to lend assistance to efforts being made to rescue workers trapped in a partially collapsed tunnel in Uttarakhand’s Uttarkashi district, officials said. Rescuers on Monday pushed through a six-inch-wide pipeline through the […]
DRI recovers gold in compound form worth Rs 2 crore from lavatory of Indigo flight from Bahrain
Kochi: The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) on Monday recovered a substantial amount of gold in compound form from the lavatory of an Indigo flight that had arrived from Bahrain at Cochin International Airport. Acting on a tip off, DRI officials conducted an inspection of the flight, leading to the seizure of 3,285 grams of […]
MIA handled record 7,399 passengers on Nov 19
Mangaluru: Mangaluru International Airport handled a record 7,399 passengers on November 19 on 26 arriving and 25 departing flights. This includes 3,527 arriving and 3,872 departing passengers, respectively. This is the highest-ever daily passenger that the airport has handled from the commercial operation date (COD) of October 31, 2020. This is also the first time […]
Airport issue takes off this election season in Rajasthan’s Kota
Kota: With election campaigning in Rajasthan hitting a fever pitch, the demand for the development of an airport in Kota is also reaching a crescendo here, even as the Congress and the BJP blame each other for the project not moving towards fruition. The issue has made way to the campaign discourse especially in the […]
Unknown flying object affects flight services in Manipur
Imphal: Normal flight services at Manipur’s Imphal International Airport were affected on Sunday afternoon over sighting of an unidentified flying object (UFO), officials said. Two flights were diverted and three others delayed. Services normalised after around three hours. “Due to sighting of an unidentified flying object within Imphal controlled airspace, two flights have been diverted […]
Two more flights between Mangaluru-Bengaluru
Mangaluru: The Air India Express (AIE) has launched two more flights between Mangaluru and Bengaluru, expanding connections between the two cities. With this, Mangaluru will now have a total of seven flights to the state capital, airport sources said. The inaugural flight IX 782 began operating from Tuesday. The second flight IX1795 operates on the […]
Uttarakhand tunnel rescue: IAF deploys C-17 to airlift critical equipment from Indore to Dehradun
New Delhi: Amid rescue operations underway in Uttarakhand at the Silkyara tunnel site, a C-17 transport aircraft of the Indian Air Force has been deployed to airlift almost 22 tonnes of critical equipment from Indore to Dehradun, officials said on Friday. Working round-the-clock with a powerful machine, rescue workers have drilled through up to 24 […]
Uttarkashi tunnel collapse: IAF lands rescue gears at Dharasu ALG in a critical operation
New Delhi: As a part of the efforts being undertaken to rescue 40 trapped workers in Uttarakhand, the Indian Air Force has airlifted 27.5 tonnes of rescue equipment with pin-point accuracy, using a “short and narrow” airstrip high up in the Himalayas after creating a “mud-ramp” for quick offloading, defence sources said. The IAF used […]