Category: Civil Aviation

Air India is expected to resume operations of wide-bodied aircraft from Calicut International Airport within a month, airport Director K. Srinivasa Rao has said.

Kannur International Airport Ltd. (KIAL) Managing Director V. Thulasidas has said the airport company is planning to set up an ‘airport village’ in the airport.

The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) sleuths seized $ 10,000 (about Rs. 7 lakh) from a passenger at the international airport here on Thursday.

Qatar Airways on Wednesday announced that flyers from India would now have a new payment option for bookings, in monthly instalments of 3, 6, 9 or 12 months respectively.

Jet Airways on Wednesday introduced a dynamic, tiered framework to provide substantial savings to domestic passengers who plan their trips in advance.

An Airbus A320neo scheduled to operate a GoAir flight from Ahmedabad to Kolkata suffered a technical glitch soon after take-off on Wednesday, forcing it to return to Ahmedabad. GoAir clarified that all the passengers were accommodated in another aircraft.

The Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport will not operate flights between 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. on Thursdays, Saturdays and Tuesdays from February 7 to March 30, owing to major runway repairs. Airport officials said the cancellation of around 230 flights on each of these days would end up disrupting 5,520 flights.

A petition was filed in the Supreme Court on Wednesday over the “alarming increase” in the crash of aircraft and helicopters of the Indian Armed Forces (IAF), seeking a direction to the Centre to take steps to ensure that such accidents do not occur in future.

Overseas passenger traffic is likely to take a hit at the international airport here as Air India Express has announced suspension of its service on the Tiruchi-Sharjah-Tiruchi sector for two days in a week with effect from February 17 to March 31.

Officers of the Customs Air Intelligence Unit seized 1.25 kg of gold cut in to pieces from a 42-year-old male passenger after he arrived here from Kuala Lumpur by an Air Asia flight on Tuesday.

Despite constraints, especially owing to its expansion not taking off, the Coimbatore International Airport registered 27.29 % growth in terms of passengers traffic (domestic and international) in 2018 compared to the previous year.

While the acquisition of land by the State Government for expanding the Coimbatore International Airport is yet to be completed, a section of the land owners, who had leased their lands 80 years ago, are complaining apathy by the Airport Authority of India (AAI).