Category: Civil Aviation

An explosion struck next to the Suleimaniyah International Airport in northern Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdish region Friday, local officials said. The blast came days after Turkey closed its airspace to flights to and from the airport, citing an alleged increase in Kurdish militant activity threatening flight safety. Turkey has spent years fighting Kurdish militants in its […]

Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport has broken into the club of the world’s 10 busiest airports by passengers handled, as per Airports Council International (ACI). The global trade association of airports ranked the Delhi airport at the ninth spot for 2022, just ahead of Paris’s Charles de Gaulle Airport. As per ACI data, the Delhi […]

Amsterdam’s Schiphol, one of the top airports in Europe, announced on Tuesday it will turn down the noise and limit its pollution in one of the world’s most densely populated areas. The move immediately received plaudits from environmentalists but not from its biggest customer – KLM national airlines. With its plans, the airport will phase […]

Sahar police in Mumbai arrested a Swedish national Thursday for allegedly molesting a female airline staff onboard a Bangkok-Mumbai flight. The police identified the accused as Klas Erik Harald Jonas Westberg, 63. An officer said Westberg was inebriated while he was on the flight. “While onboard, the accused initially created a scene after he was […]

Nine people were killed in a crash of two US Army Black Hawk helicopters during a routine training mission over Kentucky late on Wednesday, the Washington Post reported on Thursday. Crew members were flying two HH-60 Black Hawk helicopters, operated by the 101st Airborne Division, which crashed at around 10:00 p.m. ET (0200 GMT Thursday) […]

Air India, until recently tied to an antiquated manual pricing system when setting airfares, is shifting to algorithm-based software long used by rivals to help it squeeze out more revenue from each flight. In another sign of the formerly government-owned carrier’s whirlwind transformation under its new owner Tata Group, Air India is testing ChatGPT, OpenAI’s […]

Air India on Friday said it will introduce premium economy class for travel from May 15 in select flights to the US. The premium economy class will initially be available in select flights operated with Boeing 777-200LR aircraft on Bengaluru-San Francisco, Mumbai-San Francisco, and Mumbai-New York routes. In a release, the airline said it has […]

Haryana Deputy Chief Minister Dushyant Chautala said Thursday said that Maharaja Agrasen Hisar Airport will be made operational by November 1 this year. “Under the Regional Connectivity Scheme, air service will be started from Hisar on nine routes to different states. After completion of various works, passengers will be able to travel on these routes […]

British carrier Virgin Atlantic has expanded its codeshare pact with budget airline IndiGo, offering new destinations to its customers pan-India, a statement said on Thursday. The two airlines had in August last year inked a codeshare partnership to help them expand their access to customers flying to the destinations serviced by them. In total, the […]

Air India Express and AirAsia India have moved to a unified reservation system, whereby passengers can make bookings for both airlines through an integrated website. The move is part of the ongoing process of merging AirAsia India with Air India Express. The combined entity will focus on leisure-oriented and price-sensitive markets. On March 27, the […]

Flight carrier IndiGo on Sunday started operations between Delhi and Dharamshala. Dharamshala will be IndiGo’s 78th domestic and 104th overall flight destination. The flight connectivity will help airlines tap into the tourism season as summers approach. As per the schedule, there will be daily flights from Delhi to Dharamshala at 6.40 am, and the return […]

Haryana Deputy Chief Minister Dushyant Chautala on Sunday said that the government is preparing to operate passenger flights from Hisar airport to other cities like Jammu, Amritsar, Jaipur, Dehradun, Kullu, Shimla, Dharamshala and Chandigarh in order to increase regional connectivity. The Haryana government is working on priority to promote the drone and aviation sector, the […]