Category: Civil Aviation

An Air India flyer has sought damages from the airline after the recent leak of personal data of 4.5 million passengers, including hers and her husband’s. A legal notice was sent to Air India management on Sunday by Ritika Handoo in which she said that the airline informed her about the breach on June 1, […]

The Congress on Sunday again demanded a joint parliamentary committee (JPC) probe into the allegations of corruption in the Rafale fighter jet deal with party leader Rahul Gandhi asking why the investigation was not being ordered.

Jalan-Kalrock consortium, the winning bidder for the grounded Jet Airways, will make a cash infusion of Rs 1,375 crore in the airline and lenders will take a steep haircut on their admitted claims of over Rs 7,800 crore under the approved resolution plan. The National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) on June 22, approved the consortium’s […]

Amid heightened security across J&K after the recent bombing of an IAF station by armed drones here, authorities ordered a ban on the storage, sale or possession and use and transport of the flying machines in Rajouri on Wednesday. District Magistrate (DM) Rajesh Kumar Shavan, exercising his powers under Section 144 of the CrPC, also […]

Following a state government aircraft meeting with an accident while landing at a defence airfield at night, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has issued fresh instructions on precautions to be taken while carrying out night operations to and from a military airbase. A safety bulletin issued to all aircraft operators by DGCA’s Air […]

Out to explore aviation industry expansion in state Haryana is planning to set up four flying schools on Public Private Partnership (PPP) basis. The declaration was made by Deputy CM Dushyant Chautala who also said they were mulling an aero-museum and heliport in Gurugram on the same model to boost industrial and corporate sector of […]

Haryana is planning to set up four flying schools on a public-private partnership (PPP) basis. The declaration was made by Deputy CM Dushyant Chautala. He also said that they were mulling an aero museum and heliport in Gurugram on the same model. Dushyant Chautala was chairing a meeting of officials of the Civil Aviation Department. […]

The movements of drones used by anti-national forces across the border fence has been a challenge not only for the Border Security Force (BSF) but also for the Punjab Police. Pakistan-based smugglers are using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for droppings drugs and weapons on this side of the border, which were being used further by […]

The National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) on Tuesday approved the Jalan Kalrock Consortium’s resolution plan for the bankrupt-Jet Airways, two years after the once-storied airline went into insolvency proceedings. Financial distress forced Jet Airways, which flew for more than two decades, to suspend operations on April 17, 2019 and a consortium of lenders, led by […]

Following a good response from the travel fraternity, public sector operator Alliance Air has extended its monsoon bonanza offer, which had started on June 19, for two more days until June 23. Under the scheme, passengers can book seats with fares as low as Rs 999. Alliance Air is also allowing one change of date […]

Passenger carrier AirAsia India has operated nine flights with fully vaccinated crew, including cabin crew and pilots. According to the airline, the flights were operated on Friday. “The sectors flown by fully vaccinated crew included Bengaluru-Kolkata, Kolkata-Bengaluru, Bengaluru-Chennai, Chennai-Guwahati, Guwahati-Bengaluru, Bengaluru-Pune, Pune-Jaipur, Jaipur-Pune and Pune-Bengaluru,” the airline said in a statement.

Around 21.15 lakh domestic passengers travelled by air in May, which is 63 per cent lower than the 57.25 lakh who travelled in April, the country’s aviation regulator said on Thursday. According to the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA), 78.22 lakh people travelled within the country by air in March.