Category: Civil Aviation

NEW DELHI: A team of Defence Ministry officials had found in 2015 that Rafale-maker Dassault Aviation was not the lowest bidder for the UPA government’s medium multi-role combat aircraft (MMRCA) tender and that its bid should have been rejected at the technical evaluation stage itself, the CAG observed in its audit report on Wednesday. In […]

BENGALURU: Fighter jets, bombers, transport and reconnaissance aircraft from the US are set to dominate Bengaluru skies during the biennial five-day military and civil aerospace exposition Aero India 2019 starting in Bengaluru from February 20. Nearly 60 aircraft, including the much-talked-about French Rafale fighter jets, IAF’s Tejas Light Combat Aircraft, Su-30 MKI, Jaguar, Mirage-2000 I/TI, […]

KOCHI: Authorities of the Cochin International Airport Ltd (CIAL) on Wednesday issued a notice cautioning the public against fraudsters scamming job-seekers by promising employment opportunities in CIAL and taking money in return. CIAL officers said the notice was issued after it was found some websites were spreading fake information regarding the recruitment drive and vacancies […]

NEW DELHI: Ashwani Lohani has been appointed chairman and managing director (CMD) of Air India, according to an order issued by the government on Wednesday. This will be Lohani’s second tenure as Air India chief. His appointment was approved by the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet on Wednesday, sources said. Lohani was appointed Railway Board […]

NEW DELHI: Aviation regulator DGCA is reviewing every 15 days the schedule of flights to be operated by crisis-hit Jet Airways, according to a senior official. The full service airline is grappling with acute financial problems and had to ground some of its aircraft due to non-payment of lease rentals as well as other operational […]

LONDON: Calling Prime Minister Narendra Modi an “eloquent speaker”, absconding liquor baron Vijay Mallya on Thursday asked as to why the Prime Minister was not instructing the banks to take the money he had made available to pay off the public funds lent to Kingfisher. On February 4, the UK Home Office has signed an […]

TOULOUSE: European aviation giant Airbus said Thursday it will stop making its superjumbo A380 in 2021 for lack of customers, abandoning the world’s biggest passenger jet and one of the aviation industry’s most ambitious and most troubled endeavors. Barely a decade after the 500-plus-seat plane started carrying passengers, Airbus said in a statement that key […]

CHENNAI: There is an 18.6 per cent annual increase in domestic aviation sector considering the rise in Indians preferring to fly across the country last year, according to an International Air Transport Association (IATA) report.

NEW DELHI: Domestic airlines owed dues worth Rs 2,448 crore to the Airports Authority of India (AAI) as on January 15, the civil aviation ministry said on Thursday. Dues against foreign scheduled and non-scheduled airline operators stood at Rs 312.27 crore, Minister of State for Civil Aviation Jayant Sinha said in a written reply to […]

NEW DELHI: The black box of the Mirage-2000 trainer aircraft, which crashed in Bengaluru last week killing two pilots, has been sent to France’s Dassault Aviation, the Original Equipment Manufacturer, for decoding of its data, a senior HAL official said Wednesday.

NEW DELHI: The Delhi airport has reported the highest number of theft cases among airports in the country for the third consecutive year in 2018, the Ministry of Civil Aviation said in Rajya Sabha Wednesday.

NEW DELHI: Pilots of crisis-hit Jet Airways this week discussed the current situation and are likely to take a final call next month in case the airline fails to adhere to the timeline set for partial payment of salaries, according to a source.