Category: Civil Aviation

New Delhi: India’s airlines are poised to cut their cumulative losses by as much as two-thirds in the financial year starting in April, aviation consultancy CAPA India said on Tuesday, with airline executives saying ticket prices are finally rising. The consultancy’s forecast is for Indian carriers to lose a collective $550 million to $700 million […]

MUMBAI: Mumbai: IndiGo cancelled more than 30 flights on Tuesday, primarily because of a shortage of pilots, an industry official said, requesting anonymity. The budget carrier, which is India’s largest airline by marketshare, operates about 1,300 flights daily. Flights were cancelled in the Kolkata-Delhi, Kolkata-Nagpur, Kolkata-Chennai, Kolkata-Bangalore, Hyderabad-Kolkata, Hyderabad-Bangalore, Ahmedabad-Udaipur, Ahmedabad-Bangalore, Mumbai-Delhi, and Bangalore-Raipur routes, […]

New Delhi: Budget carrier IndiGo is offering flight tickets from an all-inclusive price of ₹899 and ₹3,399 for its domestic and international routes, respectively, in a new sale. Bookings for IndiGo’s latest offer on flight tickets are open till 13 February 2019, said the airline. According to IndiGo’s website, the travel period for this offer […]

Mumbai: SpiceJet Ltd, India’s second-largest budget airline by market share, swung to an unexpected net profit in the December quarter (Q3) after two straight quarters of losses. The earnings, however, marked a sharp decline from the year-ago period as higher expenses outweighed an increase in revenue.

NEW DELHI: The policy to clinch defence deals without at times rigorously following standard operating procedures was laid out by none other than the previous Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA), said a news report on Monday, even as another report criticized the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government for seemingly discarding established procedure for military procurement […]

Buy ticket, board plane, try (and fail) to sleep, land: The basic nuts and bolts of flying haven’t changed much since the advent of aviation. But this year, thanks to a handful of aviation-led venture capital groups, the finer points are evolving.

NEW DELHI: The much-awaited Comptroller and Auditor General’s (CAG) report on the ₹59,000 crore Rafale fighter aircraft deal is expected to be tabled in the Parliament this week with some news reports suggesting it could be on Monday.

NEW DELHI: Crisis-hit Jet Airways Sunday cancelled more than 10 flights due to operational reasons, according to a source.

More than 50 flights operated by budget airline IndiGo were cancelled in the past three days. InterGlobe Aviation Ltd, which runs the largest domestic carrier, said the disruptions were primarily due to the hailstorm that hit north India on Thursday.

NEW DELHI: Budget major IndiGo continued to cancel multiple domestic flights across the country on Sunday as its flight operations have been “badly disrupted” after hailstorm lashed parts of north India earlier this week.

NEW DELHI: India on Sunday received the first four of 15 Boeing Co.’s Chinook helicopters that are expected to bolster the heavy-lift capabilities of its air force and further strengthen the fast-expanding defence ties with the US.

New Delhi: Jet Airways, which is grappling with acute financial problems, today said its board will meet on February 14, to approve the unaudited financial statements for the third quarter and nine months ended December 31, 2018.