Category: Civil Aviation

The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Tuesday asked GoAir to replace 13 A320Neo aircraft’s PW engines, which have been used for over 3,000 hours, within the next 15 days or face grounding of the airplanes, an official said. The DGCA has given GoAir two weeks’ time to replace at least one of two […]

Thirteen employees of airlines and airports have failed breath analyser tests since September 16 and they have been suspended for three months, a DGCA official said on Monday. Seven employees of IndiGo, and one airside worker each of GoAir and SpiceJet have failed the alcohol tests since the rules were issued, the official said.

Britain’s Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) said over 70 flights are scheduled for Thursday to bring back 16,000 people to the country following the collapse of Thomas Cook. The authority also said over 150 Thomas Cook crew and 30% of the total number of passengers, in the first three days of the operation, had already been […]

In the wake of a series of runway excursion incidents across Indian airports that led to discovery of several shortcomings in runway maintenance, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Tuesday directed all airport operators to conduct periodic inspection of runway surface. “Airport operators have been mandated to conduct periodic friction test and rubber […]

A new twist has emerged in the ongoing fight between the co-promoters of IndiGo — Rahul Bhatia and Rakesh Gangwal — at a time when there was speculation that the two are close to reaching an agreement. While the board had on July 20 decided to expand its membership from the current six to ten, […]

NEW YORK: With its main rival hobbled by the worldwide grounding of a top-selling jet, Europe’s Airbus could seem poised to emerge as the undisputed global aerospace leader. Airbus has overtaken the American giant Boeing in some key benchmarks in 2019. And the company is now better positioned to move quickly on a new jet […]

Extending protection from arrest, a Delhi court Friday reserved its order on an anticipatory bail plea moved by Ratul Puri, who is under the scanner for allegedly receiving kickbacks in the AgustaWestland chopper scam, for August 6. Meanwhile, a man claiming to be a witness appeared before the court saying the Enforcement Directorate (ED) had […]

Full service carrier Vistara, which is set to hit international sky from next week, on Friday announced expansion of its overseas services with a daily flight to Dubai from Mumbai, starting August 21. Vistara had early last month said it will commence operations on the international routes from August with a flight services to Singapore […]

Three airlines — Air India, Air India Express and IndiGo — are incurring a combined Rs 37 lakh every day in additional operational expenditure due to rerouting that avoids part of Iranian airspace, Minister of State for Civil Aviation (Independent Charge) Hardeep Singh Puri informed Parliament on Thursday. The rerouting primarily affects flights to destinations […]

The Jammu & Kashmir Police’s Crime Branch, which has been conducting an investigation into sudden surge in airfares, particularly in the Delhi-J&K sector, has found out a “nexus between airlines and unauthorised ticketing agents”. This, the police claims, creates “an artificial demand by blocking a large chunk of seats in a flight and thus ensuring […]

Describing Air India as a “first-class asset”, Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri told the Lok Sabha that following the shut-down of Jet Airways, Air India has become “an even more attractive acquisition”. “Air India is a first-class asset. It has 125 planes; it owns half of them. It flies to 40 international destinations and […]

The shareholder agreement between entities controlled by Rahul Bhatia and Rakesh Gangwal — the two promoters of Interglobe Aviation who are currently at loggerheads — is set to expire in October this year, and an ongoing renegotiation of the same is learnt to be at the heart of the rift. The dispute is learnt to […]