Category: Civil Aviation

The Bombay High Court recently granted interim relief of no coercive action till January 31 to Jet Airways founder Naresh Goyal and his wife Anita Goyal in a money laundering case registered by the Enforcement Directorate (ED). The central agency had in 2020 taken cognisance of an FIR by Mumbai police at MRA Marg police […]

Full service carrier Vistara on Monday said it reported a profit for the first time since inception in the three months ended December 2022. Without disclosing the exact profit figure in the December quarter, the airline also said it crossed the USD 1 billion revenue mark and remained EBITDA positive in the current fiscal year. […]

Each year, as January 24 approaches, my thoughts go back to a most tragic event that took place 57 years ago when Air India Flight 101 crashed at Mont Blanc in Europe, killing 117 passengers including the crew members. Among them was Dr Homi Bhabha, the founder and chairman of the Indian Atomic Energy Commission […]

E-commerce giant Amazon Monday launched its dedicated air cargo services, Amazon Air, in Hyderabad – a first in India – in collaboration with cargo operator Quick Jet Cargo Airlines Pvt Ltd. Hyderabad also became the first location outside the United States and Europe where the service was launched. Two Boeing 737-800 aircraft would be deployed […]

Two passengers on a SpiceJet flight were deboarded and handed over to police at IGI Airport Monday after they allegedly misbehaved with an air hostess. Police said they have arrested one of the men, Absar Alam, and registered an FIR under IPC section 354 (molestation). A senior officer said, “Security staff told us the airline […]

An Air India Express flight from Thiruvananthapuram to Muscat, Oman returned shortly after take-off due to a technical glitch in its onboard computer system. Flight, IX 549, which took off from the state capital of Kerala at 8.30 AM returned to the international airport here at 9.17 AM after one of the pilots noticed the […]

Punjab Police, in a joint operation with the Border Security Force (BSF), shot down a drone from Pakistan that was being used to smuggle drugs into the country, near the international border in Amritsar, officials said Sunday. The hexacopter was carrying five kg of heroin and was shot down in Kakkar village, nearly two kms […]

On August 4, 1979, the parents of Nandini Dighe, a Mumbai-based (then Bombay) air hostess with Indian Airlines, had booked three tickets for a Saturday night movie show they wanted to attend with their daughter. Nandini, however, failed to return home by 9.30 pm and the parents, who were used to such delays due to […]

A Goa-bound chartered flight from Russian capital Moscow with 240 passengers on board was diverted to Uzbekistan in the wee hours of Saturday following a bomb threat, police said. The flight was scheduled to land at the Dabolim airport in South Goa at 4.15 am, a senior police official said. The flight (AZV2463) operated by […]

Aviation regulator DGCA has imposed a penalty of Rs 30 lakh on Air India as well as suspended the license of the pilot-in-command of the New York-Delhi flight in which a person allegedly urinated on an elderly female co-passenger. The watchdog has also slapped a fine of Rs 3 lakh on Air India’s Director of […]

Aviation regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) Friday imposed a penalty of Rs 30 lakh on Air India in connection with an incident in which a passenger named Shankar Mishra allegedly urinated on an elderly female co-passenger in November last year. The watchdog also suspended the license of the pilot-in-command of the New York-Delhi […]

The Chennai airport has come up with an initiative that will facilitate air passengers to check in their luggage at Metro rail stations, which has a great demand among airport-bound commuters. A meeting on the initiative was convened by Chennai Airport Director Dr Sharad Kumar recently in which the officials from Chennai Metro Rail Limited […]