Air India incurred an estimated revenue loss of ₹3 crore over the past three months owing to around 1,500 damaged and unusable seats on its international flights that were left vacant. Data provided by the airline said most of these seats were on Boeing 777 aircraft, operating between India and the United States and were […]
Category: Civil Aviation
New ATC tower at IGI airport, Delhi to start operations by month-end
Delays at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport, due to congestion in airspace, might soon be a thing of past with the capital’s new “state-of-the-art” air traffic control tower ready for parallel operations by the end of this month. Officers believe that the new tower, which boasts additional capacity and much advanced systems, will allow them […]
IndiGo plans budget business class seats to lure Europe-Asia fliers
Low-cost airlines, the pioneers of brief discomfort at bargain prices, have struggled to master long-haul flights. Now one of the world’s most successful budget carriers is considering cut-price business class seats as a way into the Europe-Asia market. India’s IndiGo, which currently flies as far as Istanbul, is mapping out an ambitious long-distance network. The […]
Air India pilot alleges senior asked her, ‘Didn’t I need to have sex every day’; airlines orders probe
Air India has set up an enquiry against one of its senior captains on sexual harassment allegations after receiving a complaint from a woman pilot. Air India spokesperson said that the woman pilot in her complaint to the airline’s management stated that the accused asked her several inappropriate questions. In her complaint, she stated, “The […]
Crisis-hit Jet Airways loses its CEO and CFO on same day
The chief executive and two other senior figures at Jet Airways have quit, the Indian company said on Tuesday, further eroding any hopes of a rescue of the debt-laden carrier that grounded operations last month. Jet, once the biggest private carrier in the country, owes vast sums to its lessors, employees, fuel suppliers and other […]
CEO, CFO quit as Jet Airways rescue talks drag on
Jet Airways (India) Ltd lost its senior-most executives on Tuesday, raising fresh uncertainty over whether the airline, grounded for nearly a month, will ever take to the skies. Vinay Dube, chief executive officer (CEO), and Amit Agarwal, deputy CEO and chief financial officer, put in their papers, adding to the growing list of top-level exits […]
Passengers, airlines face steep costs due to closure of Pak airspace
The closure of Pakistan’s airspace for nearly three months has hit travellers and airlines from Afghanistan and Central Asia the hardest, with some airlines suspending or reducing flights while passengers grapple with a sharp rise in fares. The fare for the Delhi-Kabul flight on Afghanistan’s Kam Air, for instance, has gone from $160 to almost […]
Probe on disclosure of classified Rafale information: Defence minister
An internal inquiry has been ordered on disclosure of classified information in the Rafale deal, the Defence Ministry has said in an RTI query. City-based Right to Information (RTI) activist Anil Galgali had filed an RTI seeking information from the Defence Ministry about the “stolen” Rafale files and action taken by the ministry in this […]
CFO of grounded Jet Airways Amit Agarwal resigns over personal reasons
Grounded carrier Jet Airways’ deputy chief executive and chief financial officer (CFO) Amit Agarwal has resigned, the airline said on Tuesday. Agarwal’s resignation is effective from May 13, it said. “We wish to inform that Amit Agarwal, the deputy chief executive officer and CFO of the company, has resigned from service due to personal reasons, […]
Won’t sell F-21 jets to anyone, if deal with India finalised, says Lockheed Martin
US aerospace giant Lockheed Martin says it will not sell its newly rolled out F-21 fighter jet to any other country if India places an order for 114 planes, in an offer aimed at pitching itself ahead of its US, European and Russian competitors for the mega deal. Vivek Lall, vice president of Strategy and […]
No survivors found in Mexico crash of jet carrying 13 people
All 13 people aboard were killed when a private jet crashed between the U.S. city of Las Vegas and Monterrey in northern Mexico, authorities said on Monday. The wreckage of the plane was found via aerial surveillance in a remote mountainous zone in the northern municipality of Ocampo, the government of Coahuila state said in […]
Pilot says lightning caused deadly Russian crash landing that killed 41
The pilot of a Russian passenger plane that erupted in a ball of fire on the runway of Moscow’s busiest airport, killing 41 people, said lightning led to the emergency landing. Investigators were on Monday working to understand the causes of the blaze after the Sukhoi Superjet-100 had to return to Sheremetyevo airport shortly after […]