Category: Civil Aviation

Hundreds of Air India passengers were left stranded at several airports across the world due to a glitch in its check-in software, the airline said Saturday. The airline’s “server is down”, an official said. “SITA server is down. Due to which flight operation is affected. Our technical teams are on work and soon system may […]

Private sector lender Yes Bank posted a whopping Rs. 1,507 crore loss during the Jan.-March period of 2018-19, as bad loans surged due to its exposure to troubled firms like Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services Ltd. (IL&FS) and an airline company. The bank, however, has refrained from naming the airline. The lender posted a Rs. […]

Jet Airways on Friday told its employees that despite its best efforts there has been no clarity or commitment on salaries by any of its stakeholders. In a mail to employees, Jet Airways CEO Vinay Dube said the leadership team had spent the last few days trying to convince the consortium of Indian banks (led […]

For three hours on Wednesday night, the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport airside looked like a film set. An aircraft with 210 passengers had collided with a cargo plane leading to a fire and four casualties. The situation which was responded to with utmost seriousness and the Standard Operating Procedure being followed in detail, was […]

With an uncertain future of the over 22,000 employees of the grounded Jet Airways, bank unions on Monday suggested that lenders must come forward to offer special loans to them to tide over related-party transactions (RPT) over the financial crisis arising from non-payment of salaries. Last week, the unions had written to Prime Minister Narendra […]

On the back of Jet Airways’ collapse as well as the grounding of Boeing 737 MAX planes in the country, the growth in domestic aviation traffic was flat in March. Indian airlines altogether flew 115.96 lakh passengers last month, a mere 16,000 more than the year-ago period, according to DGCA’s monthly data. India’s domestic air […]

The Shiv Sena on Monday urged the Central government to take over the temporarily grounded private carrier Jet Airways and save its staff from losing their jobs. It asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to take a cue from the foresight shown by former PMs Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi in nationalising insurance companies and airlines. […]

A petition moved before the Delhi High Court on Monday has sought direction to the Centre and Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) to ensure refund or alternative mode of travel to passengers who had booked tickets with Jet Airways.

A petition moved before the Delhi High Court on Monday has sought direction to the Centre and Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) to ensure refund or alternative mode of travel to passengers who had booked tickets with Jet Airways. The plea said the sudden suspension of all domestic and international flights of Jet Airways […]

AirAsia has come out with special discounted fares across its international network from India for destinations like Kuala Lumpur and Bangkok from Visakhapatnam, Bengaluru, Bhubaneshwar, Kolkata, Kochi, Chennai, Trichy, Delhi, Jaipur, Ahmedabad, Amritsar and Hyderabad. “The trend of advance booking in international travel has grown year-on-year for AirAsia and with the airline offering a discount […]

Raising slogans like ‘Save Jet Airways’, ‘Save our families’, ‘Hear our Cry, Let 9W fly’, aggrieved staff of the cash-strapped Jet Airways appealed to the Union government and other stakeholders to keep the airlines afloat. The staff of the airlines, many of them in uniform, gathered in front of the Town Hall on Monday to […]

Employees of Jet Airways on Saturday met Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in New Delhi with an appeal that the airline be saved from permanent closure. Accompanied by Maharashtra Finance Minister Sudhir Mungantiwar, Jet Airways CEO Vinay Dube and CFO Amit Agarwal, the employees, comprising pilots, cabin crew, engineers and ground staff, handed over a […]