Category: Civil Aviation

Mumbai: IndiGo NSE 0.47 %, India’s biggest carrier by market share, will lay off 10% of its workforce, its chief executive said in a note, as airline operators globally take a beating due to the Covid-19 pandemic and resultant shutdowns. IndiGo currently has about 28,000 employees, of which 40% are pilots and cabin crew. A […]

NEW DELHI: Any unilateral change by Air India in the salaries of pilots would be illegal and has the potential to flare-up to a situation of “unprecedented magnitude”, said the ICPA, one of the airline’s pilot unions, on Monday. In a letter to Air India Chairman and Managing Director Rajiv Bansal, the ICPA said, “In […]

LONDON: The “queen of the skies” will no longer don the red, white and blue of the Union Jack after British Airways retired its fleet of Boeing 747s on Friday as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. The airline, which was the world’s biggest operator of the 747-400 model, had already planned to ground its […]

NEW DELHI: A total of 19.84 lakh passengers travelled domestically in June this year, which is 83.5 per cent lower than the figures of the corresponding period last year, the DGCA said on Friday. Moreover, the occupancy rate or load factor for five out of six major Indian airlines was between 50 and 60 per […]

NEW DELHI: Air India on Friday said its financial situation is very challenging due to the coronavirus pandemic and its leave-without-pay (LWP) scheme for employees is a “win-win” situation for them as well as the management. The national carrier in a press statement said the scheme primarily enables employees to proceed on LWP “on voluntary […]

NEW DELHI: India on Thursday allowed limited international flights to select countries, nearly four months after shutting down all travel in the wake of Covid-19 restrictions. While tourists will not be allowed to travel if the destination country bars their entry, private and foreign airlines have been granted permission to operate services between Germany, the […]

NEW DELHI: As India resumes air travel with various nations, IndiGo NSE 0.03 % and SpiceJet, in a first, are leasing long-haul planes on a wet lease to launch flights to the UK and Europe. While SpiceJet NSE -1.51 % has already leased one Airbus 330 aircraft from Oman Air to launch flights to London […]

NEW DELHI: Air India has proposed a 60 per cent salary cut for pilots amid the coronavirus pandemic which has infected 55 of its cockpit crew members, said two leading pilot unions of the airline on Thursday. “The proposed cut for pilots is almost 60 per cent of gross emoluments. It is hilarious to note […]

MUMBAI: Budget carrier GoAir on Thursday announced the introduction of various ‘quarantine packages’ offering a range of hotels from budget to high-end ones in select cities to both domestic and international passengers at a starting price of Rs 1,400 per person per night for the quarantine period. The packages, the first of its kind by […]

The government today announced that they are starting limited number of flights between select destinations in the US, UK, France, Germany and countries in the UAE, as part of its attempt to restart international flights. “We have completed agreement with the US, UK, France and the UAE. Negotiations with Germany are in the final stage. […]

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court has sought response of Air India on a plea by one of its pilots, who has flown several evacuation and relief flights to different countries during the COVID19 pandemic, seeking direction to the carrier to accept his request for withdrawing his resignation. The petitioner, who was serving as a […]

New Delhi: Lack of social distancing by other passengers is a top concern among flyers, stated a survey by IndiGo NSE 0.26 % on Thursday that was conducted online between June 20 and June 28 among 25,000 travellers. The survey found that air transport is considered the safest form of travel by a wide margin […]