New Delhi: Indian aviation regulator DGCA has barred 90 SpiceJet pilots from operating the Boeing 737 Max aircraft after finding them not properly trained. “For the moment, we have barred these pilots from flying the Max and they have to retrain successfully for flying the aircraft,” DGCA chief Arun Kumar said in a statement. He […]
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Qantas to start first Sydney-Bengaluru flight from September
Kolkata: For the first time, Australia’s national airline Qantas will fly non-stop from Bengaluru to Sydney from September 14. It is also finalising a codeshare partnership with IndiGo to make travel between India and Australia easier. Qantas will operate four weekly return flights between Kempegowda International Airport in Bengaluru and Sydney’s Kingsford Smith International Airport […]
Qatar Airways diverts Delhi-Doha flight to Karachi after smoke indication
New Delhi: A Qatar Airways Delhi-Doha flight was diverted to Karachi on Monday after it declared an emergency due to indication of smoke in the cargo hold, the airline said. The aircraft landed safely in Karachi where it was met by emergency services, and passengers disembarked it in an orderly manner using stairs, it said […]
Fly international from March 27
New Delhi: International passenger flights will resume flying to and from India from March 27. The Indian government has taken the decision to reopen its skies for international passenger flights after a gap of two years, when the flights were stopped due to the Covid-19 outbreak in March 2020. “After deliberation with stakeholders and keeping […]
India calls for ‘local truce’, to run 16 evacuation flights today
New Delhi: India on Friday appealed to both Russia and Ukraine to put in place a “local ceasefire” in war-torn eastern Ukraine so that hundreds of Indian students stuck in the cities of Kharkhiv and Sumy could be evacuated to safety, which is a “primary focus”, even as New Delhi announced that an injured Indian […]
Three more IAF C-17 aircraft carrying 630 Indians reach Hindan airbase
New Delhi: Three more Indian Air Force’s C-17 aircraft returned to Hindan airbase late last night and early morning today carrying 630 Indian nationals from Ukraine, using airfields in Romania and Hungary under Operation Ganga. The Indian Air Force tweeted, “#OperationGanga Three more #IAF C-17 aircraft returned to Hindan airbase late last night and early […]
Air India plane departs from Mumbai to evacuate Indians stranded in Ukraine
New Delhi: An Air India plane departed from the Mumbai airport on Saturday morning for Romanian capital Bucharest to evacuate Indians stranded in Ukraine due to the Russian military offensive. The flight, AI1943, took off from the Mumbai airport around 3.40 AM and is expected to land at the Bucharest airport around 10 AM (Indian […]
Air India flights to bring Indians from Romania
New Delhi: Even as India is dispatching two Air India evacuation flights wholly at the government’s expense to the Romanian capital Bucharest on Friday night — one each from Delhi and Mumbai- — for evacuating Indian nationals stuck in Ukraine, all eyes are on whether India will once again abstain during voting on a crucial […]
Russia bans UK flights over its airspace after sanctions
Moscow: Russia’s civil aviation authority has banned U.K. flights to and over Russia in retaliation to the British ban on Aeroflot flights. Rosaviatsiya said that all flights by the U.K. carriers to Russia as well as transit flights are banned starting Friday. It said the measure was taken in response to the unfriendly decisions by […]
Ukrainian airspace closed; Air India plane returns to Delhi
New Delhi: An Air India plane that took off for Kyiv in Ukraine on Thursday morning to bring back Indians from the eastern European nation is returning to Delhi due to the closure of Ukrainian airspace amid the Russian military offensive. After the Air India flight had departed from Delhi on Thursday morning, the Ukrainian […]
Government trying for more flights to airlift Indians from Ukraine
New Delhi: The government on Wednesday urged Indian students in Ukraine “to maintain calm” and not panic if they are not able to get flight tickets to return home, adding that the government was in touch with several airlines to expand the number of flights between India and Ukraine. Control rooms have also been set […]
Vistara gradually restoring certain services to pre-Covid levels
Mumbai: Full-service carrier Vistara on Wednesday said it is gradually resuming certain services that were suspended temporarily due to the pandemic. The airline also plans to improve its inflight entertainment offerings across its domestic and international network by introducing a wider variety of content, Vistara said in a statement. Since the start of the pandemic, […]