Category: Civil Aviation

A team of scuba divers has stumbled upon the wreckage of a single-seater aircraft that sank in the 1960s off the Neelankarai coast in south Chennai. Residents of the fishing hamlet recalled that they had rescued the pilot, who was pulled out by two men who caught his long tresses on that day. “I was […]

The growth in domestic aviation traffic slowed down further in January and registered a 9% rise as compared to the same month last year, according to government data. Indian carriers altogether ferried a total of 1.26 crore passengers, marginally higher than 1.14 crore passengers in January 2018. The ebb in passenger traffic began in October […]

The Bank-led Resolution Plan (BLRP) for troubled carrier Jet Airways, which will be taken up for shareholders’ approval at an EGM on Thursday, has projected that the airline will start turning in net profits from the October-December quarter of 2019-20. According to people familiar with the restructuring, the resolution plan states that the turnaround would […]

The 12th edition of Aero India 2019 was inaugurated at Air Force Station Yelahanka in Bengaluru on Wednesday by Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman. Three IAF fighter jets and a Rafale paid aerial tributes to Wg Cdr Sahil Gandhi who was killed in a mid-air collision during a rehearsal on Tuesday. The Indian jets — Tejas, […]

Amidst reports that the Airports Authority of India (AAI) requested the State Government to expand Coimbatore International Airport by acquiring 365 acres, the Revenue Department said that it was sticking to the initial plan of acquiring 627.89 acres. On behalf of the Revenue Department, the Coimbatore District Collector recently sent a letter to the Transport […]

Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi on Monday highlighted the need to enhance the might of the Indian Air Force (IAF) to match that of other countries in the backdrop of the recent crash of a Mirage trainer aircraft and the death of two pilots in Bengaluru. The Chief Justice was heading a Bench hearing […]

Aviation watchdog DGCA is monitoring IndiGo to check if the airline has sufficient crew to match its rapid fleet expansion, according to a top official. IndiGo has decided to cancel at least 30 flights per day in February and March due to shortage of pilots. The country’s biggest airline in market share (43%) and fleet […]

Flight Lieutenant Hina Jaiswal has become the first woman flight engineer, breaching what until last year was the Indian Air Force’s men-only club. Commissioned in 2015 Commissioned in January 2015 to the IAF’s engineering branch, she created history when she was chosen as the first woman candidate to pursue the elite course.

A day after the Jet Airways’ board approved a resolution plan for the beleaguered airline, its top brass said on Friday that the carrier would resume capacity growth. “As the transition to a fully restructured network is complete, current liquidity challenges addressed, deployed capacity will resume its growth track. This will include long-haul wide-body routes […]

Debt-laden Jet Airways, which approved a provisional resolution plan on Thursday, will need to raise Rs. 3,000 crore by selling (and then leasing back) some of its aircraft, and a new investor would have chip in with another Rs. 3,000 crore, sources with direct knowledge of the plan told The Hindu. The Jet Airways board, […]

A consortium of commercial banks led by State Bank of India (SBI) will acquire a majority stake in Jet Airways (India) Ltd. by converting part of their debt into equity for a consideration of Rs. 1 and advancing more capital to give the airline a lifeline to enable it to achieve a turnaround. Jet Airways’ […]

The Comptroller and Auditor General in its report has pulled up the Indian Air Force (IAF) for framing its service specifications in the tenders for heavy lift and attack helicopters to suit “products of a particular vendor.” The IAF had chosen Chinook and Apache helicopters of Boeing from an evaluation process. The deliveries will begin […]