A Qatar Airways jetliner landed in Saudi Arabia on Monday, completing the first direct flight from Doha to Riyadh since the kingdom’s boycott of the tiny, energy-rich state in 2017. The resumption of direct flights came after regional heavyweight Saudi Arabia reopened its borders and airspace with Qatar last week, paving the way for a […]
Category: Civil Aviation
Domestic air traffic down 45% to 71 lakh in Dec: ICRA
India’s domestic traffic declined around 45 per cent to about 71 lakh passengers in December last year over December 2019 even as passenger traffic was up 12 per cent sequentially over November 2020, ratings agency Icra said in a release. The capacity deployment in December 2020 at around 67 per cent (vis-a-vis December 2019) is […]
J’suguda-Mumbai-B’luru flights begin
The much-awaited direct flights from the VSS Airport here to Mumbai and Bengaluru were inaugurated on Tuesday. Health Minister Naba Kisore Das, Bargarh MP Sures Pujari, Brajrajnagar MLA Kishore Mohanty, Sundargarh MP Jual Oram, Kalahandi MP Basant Panda, Sambalpur MP Nitish Gangdeb and Airport Director Kisore Senapati were present.Minister Das informed that the State Government […]
AirAsia to operate BBSR-Pune flights
The AirAsia airline is all set to operate direct flights between Bhubaneswar and Pune as the Odisha Government has agreed to provide financial support for the operation. “To further enhance air connectivity into Odisha, the State Government has agreed to provide financial support for AirAsia’s direct flight operation between Bhubaneswar and Pune for three months,” […]
Flights leave Pune carrying lakhs of Covishield vaccine doses
A decisive phase in India’s fight against coronavirus began on Tuesday as the first consignment of Covishield vaccines left for Delhi, four days ahead of the nationwide inoculation drive launch. Four airlines are operating nine flights to transport 56.5 lakh doses of the vaccine from Pune to 13 cities across the country on Tuesday, Civil […]
AI flight with all-woman crew from San Francisco lands in Bengaluru
Creating history, Air India’s Longest flight from San Francisco to Bengaluru with an all- woman crew landed in the city on Monday. As the flight (AI-176) landed at the Kempegowda International Airport in Bengaluru and the crew members walked to the airport lounge, there was a huge crowd of people to receive them with elation […]
Black box of crashed Indonesian plane recovered
Indonesian search teams have retrieved one of the two “black boxes” from the ill-fated Boeing 737 plane that crashed into the Java Sea on Saturday, killing all 62 people on board. The flight data recorder was brought ashore, but the teams are still trying to locate the cockpit voice recorder, the BBC reported on Tuesday […]
Divers sift debris, seabed mud for Indonesia plane devices
Indonesian navy divers were searching through plane debris and seabed mud on Tuesday looking for the black boxes of a Sriwijaya Air jet that nosedived into the Java Sea over the weekend with 62 people aboard. A navy ship earlier picked up intense pings being emitted from the boxes containing the cockpit voice and flight […]
Indonesia intensifies search for crashed plane’s black boxes
The search for the black boxes of a crashed Sriwijaya Air jet intensified on Monday to boost the investigation into what caused the plane carrying 62 people to nosedive at high velocity into the Java Sea. The Boeing 737-500 jet disappeared minutes after taking off from Jakarta, Indonesia’s capital, during heavy rain on Saturday, and […]
Extend ban on UK flights till January 31: Kejriwal
In view of the “extremely serious” Covid situation in the United Kingdom (UK), the Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday urged the Centre to extend the ban on flights between India and the UK till January 31. “The Centre has decided to lift the ban and start UK flights. In view of the extremely […]
Vistara to operate non-stop flights between Delhi-Frankfurt from Feb
India’s full-service carrier Vistara will commence ‘special’ non-stop flights between Delhi and Frankfurt from February 18. The airline will fly twice a week between the two cities as part of the ‘transport bubble’ formed between India and Germany. The joint venture airline of Tata Group and Singapore Airlines will deploy a Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner aircraft […]
Indore airport extension necessary: Chouhan
Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has said that expansion of Indore Airport is necessary as per current requirements. Its expansion will be ensured. Indore Airport Authority will be given 22 acres of land. Chouhan said that Madhya Pradesh is the future logistics hub of the country. Being in the heart of the country, our state […]