Category: Civil Aviation

After a French media report stated that 1.1 million Euros was paid to a “middleman” by Rafale manufacturers, Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Monday dismissed the claim as “completely baseless” and said the Congress party had made it a big issue before the Lok Sabha polls but lost badly. Prasad said, “Why is the […]

An IndiGo flight from Mumbai to Singapore was diverted to Nagpur following a suspected oil leak on Wednesday. The aircraft, an Airbus 320neo fitted with a Pratt and Whitney engine, took off from Mumbai at 2.12 a.m. and landed in Nagpur after about 45 minutes of being in the air. An IndiGo spokesperson said the […]

IndiGo’s CEO Ronojoy Dutta on Thursday sought to reassure employees that the airline will continue to chart its growth strategy. This comes amid media reports of a rift between two of its founders. “I want to assure you that the growth strategy of the airline remains unchanged and firmly in place, and the management is […]

Air India chief, Ashwani Lohani, has instructed the airline’s leadership team to “come down heavily” on instances of sexual harassment in the company which were being reported “often.” The order from the airline’s Chairman and Managing Director follows a complaint from a woman pilot about a senior pilot and instructor about an incident on May […]

The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) is all set to conduct an experiment to prove the feasibility of beyond visual line of sight operations for unmanned aerial vehicles, where a pilot will remotely track the device The DGCA has invited Expressions of Interest (EoIs) from a consortia of experts comprising a team of expert […]

Smaller aircraft, particularly ATRs, may soon take off from the Tambaram Air Force station, as the Chennai airport has been increasingly getting saturated. A mini terminal will be built for passengers to complete the check-in and check-out procedures at the air base. Officials of Airports Authority of India (AAI) said the plan was under consideration […]

Air India has de-rostered a senior pilot and removed him from training duty following a sexual harassment complaint by a woman pilot who was training under him at the airline’s facility in Hyderabad. “We have de-rostered the commander and tasked a three-member Internal Committee [IC] headed by Executive Director of Corporate Affairs, Aruna Gopalakrishnan, to […]

Air India has prepared a revival plan to make 19 of its grounded planes airborne by October, according to a top airline official. Many of these planes, of a total fleet size of 127, have been grounded for more than a year awaiting replacement of engines and their spare parts. However, faced with a cash […]

Jet Airways (India) Ltd. has announced the resignation of its Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Vinay Dube and Deputy Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Amit Agarwal, who stepped down days after the ‘disappointing bid’ by Etihad Airways. “The Etihad deal triggered their exit from the airline,” said a senior executive adding, “everybody was […]

After receiving Etihad’s offer to buy partial stake in Jet Airways, lenders to the grounded airline will come up with a new scheme to attract more investors. SBI Caps, which is conducting the stake sale process of Jet Airways, will be coming up with a fresh plan by the end of this week. According to […]

The bidding process initiated by lenders of Jet Airways has technically failed because not a single entity submitted a binding bid as required by the SBI Capital Markets Ltd. (SBI Caps) on behalf of the consortium of lenders. Etihad Airways might have responded by submitting its bid just before the 6 p.m., May 10, 2019 […]