Hyderabad headquartered regional air carrier TruJet has on the Republic Day offered opportunity to 30 orphan kids to fly over clouds free of cost to Kadapa under its ‘Wings of Hope’ program.
Category: Civil Aviation
Air India inducts aircraft with Gandhiji’s logo
NEW DELHI: Air India has started flying with the logo of Mahatma Gandhi to commemorate his 150th birth anniversary
Air India gets DGCA nod for ‘secret’ Caribbean flight
NEW DELHI: Amid persisting speculation that India was preparing to get hold of a high-value fugitive, Air India is learnt to have got the DGCA nod to operate a Boeing 787-8 for the special non-stop flight from Delhi to Port of Spain in Trinidad and Tobago.
Expansion plans underway, focus on growth and profitability: SpiceJet chief Ajay Singh
Confident of growth with an ambitious fleet and route expansion plan underway, airline major SpiceJetNSE 0.00 %’s head Ajay Singh has said the focus is also on keeping costs low to ensure
AirAsia India gears up to fly overseas, seeks government nod
AirAsia India has applied to the aviation ministry for permission to start overseas flights following four-and-a-half years of operations in the domestic
View: The marriage in the skies that may save both Jet and Air India
To have one airline limping forward on the brink of bankruptcy may be regarded as a misfortune. To have two looks like carelessness.
Indian airlines carried 139 mn passengers in 2018
Indian domestic aviation market continued its growth momentum by registering a growth of 18.6% for 2018 calendar year and airlines together flew 138.9 million passengers as compared to 117.1 million during 2017, reports Our Bureau.
Etihad, lenders mull emergency funds to fuel Jet
The fate of Jet AirwaysNSE 0.11 % continues to hang in balance. Gulf airline Etihad and lenders to Jet Airways have been interacting over the past two days to discuss ‘emergency funding’ that Etihad would release to the cash-strapped airline.
At 13.89 crore, number of flyers on domestic routes registers 18.6% growth: DGCA
The number of flyers on domestic routes increased to 13.89 crore in 2018 from 11.71 crore in 2017, a growth of 18.6 per cent, according to data released by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Tuesday.
Soon, your face would be enough to enter airports, board flights
Soon, you won’t need any paper including flight tickets, ID proof or boarding pass to enter into airports and take domestic flights. The government has notified rules for ‘digi yatra’ (DY) project under which air travellers can get paperless entry into airports for domestic flight through biometric authentication of facial recognition. However, international travelers have […]
IndiGo flight returns to base after “high vibration” in Pratt & Whitney engine
An IndiGoNSE 3.62 % flight returned to the airport shortly after it took off from the Indian city of Lucknow after the pilot observed “high vibration” in one of its engines, the airline said in a statement on Tuesday.
India fast emerging as aviation power, time for Indian airlines to become global: Ajay Singh, SpiceJet chief
Confident of Indian aviation sector continuing its world-beating growth rate, SpiceJet chief Ajay Singh has said it’s high time for the country to become a major global hub for connecting flights and its airlines to be leading international players.