Category: Civil Aviation

The Delhi High Court has said that the conduct of breath analyser tests (BATs) for staff of Air Traffic Controllers, commercial pilots, cabin crew, and other staff members shall continue as per the guidelines issued by the Director General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) in light of the status of the COVID-19 pandemic. It dispensed for […]

Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport has asked airlines to cancel flights between 4pm and 11pm local time on Monday due to labour shortages, it said in a statement. The move comes as one of Europe’s busiest airports again grapples with long lines, leading to some travellers missing their flights. Travel at Schiphol has been disrupted on and […]

Indian Air Force carried out a “risky” evacuation of a critically injured Border Security Force constable from Krishnagar for his admission to the SSKM hospital in Calcutta in the small hours of Sunday. On Saturday night, authorities of the South Bengal Frontier made an SOS to Indian Air Force authorities for the airlift of one […]

Air India has decided to vacate its offices in government-owned properties, and will house them jointly with other Tata group airlines, including Vistara, in a modern campus in the national capital region by March next year. Air India, which was taken over by the salt-to-software conglomerate in January this year, continued with offices in government […]

Rakesh Gangwal, the co-founder of IndiGo, on Thursday sold almost 2.75 per cent of his stake in the airline through block deals on the NSE for Rs 2,005 crore. Gangwal and his family held 36.61 per cent in InterGlobe Aviation, the parent of IndiGo at the end of June. Co-founder Rahul Batia and his family […]

Domestic airlines industry is expected to report a net loss of around Rs 15,000-17,000 crore this fiscal on account of elevated price of Aviation Turbine Fuel (ATF) and a weak rupee, a report said on Wednesday. The losses for the industry in the previous fiscal were estimated at around Rs 23,000 crore, credit ratings agency […]

Budget carrier IndiGo has said Pieter Elbers, who was named as the chief executive officer of the company to replace Ronojoy Dutta, has joined the position from Tuesday. The airline had announced the appointment of Elbers as its new CEO following Dutta’s “decision” to retire on September 30. “…Petrus Johannes Theodorus Elbers (Pieter Elbers) has […]

SpiceJet, which is facing financial headwinds, is likely to receive around Rs 225 crore under the government’s credit guarantee scheme next week, according to a source. Hit by high fuel prices and rupee depreciation, the budget carrier on Wednesday posted a net loss of Rs 789 crore for the June quarter and also said its […]

The airline has canceled 800 flights from Germany on Friday and has warned that disruption could continue over the weekend. Pilots at Germany’s airline Lufthansa started a planned 24-hour strike shortly after midnight on Friday. It forced the carrier to cancel 800 flights, impacting about 130.000 passengers. Which flights are affected in the strike?

A tear gas shell-dropping drone system has been developed by the BSF that can be used by police for controlling protesters and rioters, a senior officer of the border-guarding force said on Friday. He said the “drone tear smoke launcher” can be used for launching these shells from an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) or drone […]

India’s low-cost carrier SpiceJet Ltd said on Wednesday that chief financial officer Sanjeev Taneja had resigned amid widening losses and a series of mid-air incidents. The airline on Wednesday reported widening of net loss to Rs 789 crore in the June quarter as high fuel prices and rupee depreciation adversely impacted the budget carrier. The […]

A SpiceJet flight that took off for Nashik in Maharashtra from the Indira Gandhi International Airport here on Thursday morning returned midway to the city due to an ‘autopilot’ snag, a DGCA official said. The Boeing 737 aircraft landed safely, he said. SpiceJet B737 aircraft VT-SLP, operating flight SG-8363 (Delhi-Nashik) on Thursday was involved in […]