A Boeing Co 737 MAX made its first passenger flight in China in nearly four years on Friday, marking a major milestone in the U.S. planemaker’s attempt to rebuild its business in the world’s second-largest aviation market. The China Southern Airlines Co Ltd domestic flight from Guangzhou to Zhengzhou departed at 04.45 GMT using a […]
Category: Civil Aviation
NCLT allows Jet Airways ownership transfer to Jalan-Kalrock consortium
The National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) on Friday allowed the Jalan-Kalrock Consortium (JKC) — the winning bidder — to take over Jet Airways. The Mumbai bench of the tribunal also gave the consortium six months’ time beyond November 16, 2022 to make payments to lenders. With this, the consortium will have time till mid-May 2023 […]
Bhogi celebration: Chennai airport requests residents to avoid burning waste materials
The Chennai airport authorities have requested the residents in the nieghbourhood to avoid burning waste materials as part of the Bhogi celebrations on January 14 that is widely observed a day before Pongal, the harvest festival of Tamil Nadu. In a communiqué, the officials reminded the public of the situation in 2018 when the airfield […]
Pune Airport mulls restarting Pune-Mumbai flight, expert says service a ‘necessity’
Three years after it wound up unceremoniously with the closure of Jet Airways in 2019, Pune Airport officials are working towards persuading airlines to restart direct air service between Pune and Mumbai. As per officials of Airports Authority of India (AAI), they have started talks with the airlines to get them on board to start […]
US airports rumble back to life after FAA computer outage
US flights were slowly beginning to resume departures and a ground stop was lifted after the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) scrambled to fix a system outage overnight that had forced a halt to all US departing flights. The cause of the problem with a pilot-alerting system, which delayed thousands of flights in the United States, […]
Over 1200 flights delayed across United States due to FAA system outage
As many as 1,230 flights were delayed across the United States due to a system outage at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Wednesday, Reuters reported. An additional 103 flights within, into or out of the United States were also canceled, as per flight tracking website FlightAware. The FAA ordered airlines to pause all domestic […]
Bengaluru airport introduces special services for persons with reduced mobility
In an effort towards inclusive hospitality, the Kempegowda International Airport in Bengaluru introduced special services for persons with reduced mobility (PRM) and those with hidden disabilities on Thursday, officials said. The initiatives are particularly for persons using wheelchairs or those with reduced mobility and visually impaired individuals. Entry Gate-5 at Departures will be open for […]
Boeing closes in on large 737 Max order from Tata’s Air India
Boeing Co. is closing in on an order for as many as 200 of its 737 Max jets from Air India Ltd.’s new owner Tata Group as the two sides race to wrap up talks before the year-end holidays, according to people familiar with the matter. The final deal is expected to include 40 to […]
Air India jumbo order includes 190 Boeing MAX, 30 787s: Report
Air India is close to a deal to order more than 200 Boeing jets including 190 narrowbody 737 MAX and 30 widebody 787s – part of an historic fleet shake-up roughly split with Boeing’s European rival Airbus, industry sources said on Friday. The deal is also expected to include an unspecified number of Boeing 777X […]
Congestion at Delhi and Mumbai airports: Home secy holds meeting
Union Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla Thursday held a high-level meeting on congestion at major airports in the country, including those at Delhi, Mumbai, and Bengaluru. The meeting dealt with congestion in the departure area and how arrival areas were crowded owing to delays in immigration clearance. “It was a meeting to review the situation and […]
UK airports to soon relax security rules for liquids, laptops
All major airports across the United Kingdom have been set a June 2024 deadline to install new security technology to allow liquids and laptops in hand luggage to be scanned through, the British government announced as part of a rules shake-up on Thursday. Under current requirements, travellers in the UK are allowed to only carry […]
VietJet Air to refund airfare of travellers who booked flights from Bengaluru, Hyderabad
As VietJet Air travellers from Benglauru continued to express their ire over cancellation of tickets to Vietnam, the Vietnamese low-cost carrier on Thursday told The Indian Express that it would implement a full refund policy to the affected passengers. Though the airline company has clarified that the flights were cancelled due to “operational reasons”, it […]