Category: Civil Aviation

NEW DELHI: A GoAir plane, carrying 151 passengers, to the national capital was diverted to Nagpur due to a “technical glitch” in the pressurisation system, according to the airline. The A320 neo aircraft, which was flying from Bengaluru, is being inspected in Nagpur. In a statement, the airline said flight G8-7001 was diverted to Nagpur […]

BENGALURU: Shocked by the sudden shutdown of Jet Airways, the beleaguered employees of the airline in the city are now seeing a ray of hope. Though help had started pouring in from various rival airlines for staffers such as pilots, cabin crew and technicians, the other workers were feeling left in the lurch. The crisis […]

NEW DELHI: An engine of an empty Boeing 777 aircraft of Air India shut down at the Delhi airport on Wednesday night during a technical inspection, the airline said. Airport fire personnel then observed that black fumes were coming out of the engine’s exhaust, following which they sprayed foam on it, Air India said in […]

MUMBAI: After nearly three years, budget carrier IndiGo has decided to hike the salaries of its pilots and cabin crew as well as other categories of employees effective this month. The commanders at the largest carrier had last month objected to the hiring of pilots from the now-grounded Jet Airways with additional sops like joining […]

LONDON: British airline easyJet has stopped selling peanuts and will remove all nuts from inflight foods, it said Thursday, to protect passengers with allergies. The no-frills carrier said passengers will also be asked not to eat nuts on board if fellow customers are allergic. “The safety and welfare of all of our customers and crew […]

MUMBAI: The pilots union of the grounded Jet Airways has expressed shock over some alleged remarks by a senior SpiceJet executive against their members during a recent recruitment drive in the city earlier this week. The reaction came after a Spicejet official allegedly told some Jet pilots that they were doing a “charity” by hiring […]

BENGALURU: “It’s a machine!” he said. “Machine gun?” she asked. This misunderstanding between a Dutch national who was carrying a box along with a guitar and the cabin crew, left more than 150 people, headed to Singapore, stranded at the Kempegowda International Airport for 14 hours on Tuesday. The flight, operated by budget carrier Scoot, […]

NEW DELHI: Shares of Jet Airways (India) Limited halted its three-day decline and surged 13 per cent Tuesday on value buying at lower levels. The scrip, after a positive opening, jumped 11.57 per cent to Rs 172.50 on the BSE. At the NSE, shares zoomed 13 per cent to Rs 174.95. In the past three […]

NEW DELHI: Amid concerns raised by investors bidding for a stake in the grounded Jet Airways, the Civil Aviation Ministry (MoCA) on Tuesday said that historic rights of slots of the financially crippled airline across various airports would be protected. “The historic rights of Jet Airways, as per the provisions of the extant MoCA guidelines […]

HYDERABAD: Lenders and prospective buyers of grounded Jet Airways Ltd are at a crossroads. About 11.4 lakh fresh shares are up for grabs, but the road is unclear. Interested bidders want a cut-price deal, but banks are battling hard to protect the asset value in order to recover dues later, if not now. “It’s a […]

NEW DELHI: Even as SpiceJet and Indigo are aggressively expanding their fleets, they are unlikely to bridge the entire demand-supply gap created by the temporary grounding of Jet Airways. According to a report by Elara Capital, domestic carriers would potentially add 150 aircraft during the financial year 2020. The fleet size of SpiceJet would be […]

The grounding of Jet Airways India Ltd., the country’s oldest private-sector carrier, isn’t just bad news for customers and its 23,000 employees. It raises yet again a question that’s puzzled two successive governments and will continue to bedevil whichever party takes power after elections conclude next month: What’s killing capitalism in India? Jet was born […]