Category: Civil Aviation

NEW DELHI: The Airports Authority of India (AAI) will soon start exiting the joint venture (JV) airports with the government deciding to divest its stake in them. AAI has 26% stake each in Delhi and Mumbai JV airports and 13% each in Hyderabad and Bengaluru. Sources say the aviation ministry has moved a Cabinet note, […]

NEW DELHI: The pandemic’s severe blow to aviation has led to India allowing annual hikes in aeronautical charges — levied by airports on airlines, based on which the latter price tickets — and user development fees (UDF) that are paid directly by passengers from next fiscal. The Airports Economic Regulatory Authority (AERA) has finalised aeronautical […]

NEW DELHI: Come 2025-26 and you may be flying an Airbus for commuting up to 80km distance in an electric vertical take off and landing urban air mobility (UAM) vehicle called ‘CityAirbus’. The European aerospace major on Tuesday announced it is developing this fully electric vehicle with fixed wings, a V-shaped tail, and eight electrically […]

Kolkata: At least 19 flights were delayed for anything between 45 minutes and 4.5 hours and several others were delayed by 15 to 30 minutes at the Kolkata airport owing to heavy rainfall. Large parts of the road leading to the airport, the stretch in front of the terminal as well as large portions of […]

NEW DELHI: Travellers going from India to the UK will not benefit from the simpler rules for overseas travellers being adopted there from October 4. India is not on the list of countries covered by the new rules and travellers from here will continue to be covered under the amber list rules that do not […]

NEW DELHI: Direct connectivity has finally resumed between India and Canada after almost five months. Air Canada has restarted Delhi-Toronto nonstops with a new protocol where WHO-approved vaccinated passengers must undergo an RT-PCR or a rapid PCR test within 18 hours of boarding its flights from the Covid-19 Testing Centre and Lounge at Delhi Airport’s […]

NEW DELHI: An Air India Dreamliner (VT-ANU) operating as AI 503 from Bengaluru to Delhi diverted safely to Hyderabad on Monday due to windshield window crack. “The L1 window (meaning left forward windshield) cracked,” said people in the know. Comments from AI were sought and are awaited. The Boeing 787 took off from Bengaluru at […]

CHENNAI: The monsoon is a mere month away and the city airport is readying to prevent strong winds and rain from disrupting flights and preventing flooding of runways and taxiways. A series of steps are being taken following discussions at a meeting held by the state government with the airport last week to prepare for […]

NEW DELHI: As many as 203 cases of fraud were reported from IGI Airport from 2020 to September 15 this year. More than 290 people were arrested in such cases. Delhi Police (airport unit) said, in the current year, about 80 forgery and cheating cases were reported that included fake passport and visa cases. According […]

BENGALURU: Shares of Indian airlines InterGlobe Aviation and SpiceJet surged on Friday after regulatory data showed that passenger growth jumped 136.6% last month as the government started to ease Covid-related travel restrictions. India had halted air travel in March 2020 as the country went into a lockdown to curb the spread of the coronavirus. Domestic […]

JAKARTA (INDONESIA): A small cargo plane crashed in steep mountainous forest of Indonesia’s easternmost Papua province Wednesday, officials confirmed after an aerial search located the lost Rimbun Air plane. A search and rescue team has moved to the area to try to determine the conditions of the plane’s three crew members and the best way […]

NAVI MUMBAI: In what seems a fresh deadline for Navi Mumbai international airport, deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar told top Cidco officials at a meeting at its Belapur headquarters on Thursday to expedite work and make it operational by 2024. Pawar met officials along with NCP functionaries from Navi Mumbai to discuss long-pending issues of […]