Category: Civil Aviation

NEW DELHI: IndiGo has doubled the frequency of its Delhi-Istanbul flight which it launches on March 20. The airline had opened bookings for this route, with return fares starting at Rs 24,000. Possibly given the response — as the only other airline with a direct flight on this route is Turkish Airlines, a full-service carrier […]

CHENNAI: SpiceJet on Tuesday announced the launch of 12 new flights, including daily direct flights from Chennai to Patna and Surat, starting March 31. The flight to Patna will depart at 6.15pm and reach there at 8.50pm. In the return direction, the flight will depart from Patna at 9.20pm and reach Chennai at 11.45pm. The […]

HYDERABAD: SpiceJet on Tuesday said it has become the first Indian low-cost carrier to connect Hyderabad with Colombo through direct flights. The international flight, which will commence from April 15, 2019, will see the airline operate Hyderabad-Colombo-Hyderabad flights on all days of the week except Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Flight number SG-9 will depart from Hyderabad […]

CHENNAI: IndiGo has announced a three-day special Holi sale across its network effective from March 5 to March 7. The airline will offer an all-inclusive fare starting at Rs 899 on domestic and Rs 3,399 on international flights. This sale is valid for travel between March 19 and September 28, 2019. William Boulter, chief commercial […]

NEW DELHI: Next fiscal will be a crucial one for Air India as Rs 8,000 crore of aircraft purchase loan have to be paid off then. While almost half of AI’s total loan of over Rs 55,000 crore is being transferred to a special purpose vehicle to reduce its annual debt servicing of Rs 4,500 […]

NEW DELHI: Air India has taken disciplinary action against its four employees for allegedly “stealing” unserved food and dry ration from its planes, senior officials of the national carrier have said. In August 2017, Air India’s chairman and managing director Ashwani Lohani had issued an internal communication saying that ground staff and officers often take […]

NEW DELHI: In what has become an almost daily feature, Jet Airways on Monday informed BSE that it has grounded two more planes “due to non-payment to lessors”. On March 1 and 2, they had told BSE about grounding two planes each on both days. While six planes have been grounded this month so far, […]

CHENNAI: SpiceJet has announced that it will introduce a daily direct flight from Chennai to Bhopal from March 31. The daily flight, which will be operated using a B737 plane, will depart from Chennai at 5.15pm and reach Bhopal at 7.10pm. In the return direction, the flight will depart from Bhopal at 7.40pm. LATEST COMMENT […]

NEW DELHI: Jet fuel price was hiked on Friday by a steep 8.1 per cent to its costliest level this year as international oil prices rose, state-owned oil firms said. The price of Aviation Turbine Fuel (ATF) was hiked by Rs 4,734.15 per kilolitre, or 8.15 per cent, to Rs 62,795.12 per kl in the […]

NEW DELHI: A day after reportedly agreeing to step down as Jet Airways chairman, the airline’s founder Naresh Goyal told employees he is “prepared to make any sacrifice to ensure your future comfort and prosperity, viability of the airline and welfare of all employees.” He told them the situation would “gently ease” by March 18. […]

NEW DELHI: With dozens of Jet Airways’ planes grounded and flights being cancelled, Air India has decided not to accept passengers with Jet tickets on its flights. Airlines regularly accept each others’ passengers when flights are cancelled and then later on they get paid by the airline whose cancelled flights’ passengers are accepted. However, given […]

BENGALURU: Hundreds of passengers who had pre-booked journeys on Jet Airways for February and March have been left in the lurch with the airlines cancelling over 30 daily services to/from Bengaluru, in view of several of its planes being grounded due to non-payment to lessors. It’s said that over 34 daily services of Jet Airways […]