Category: Civil Aviation

Wadia group-owned GoAir plans to come out with a Rs 2,500 crore-initial share sale early next fiscal, according to sources. The no-frills airline has been working on expansion plans and an Initial Public Offer (IPO) will help in raising funds. In recent months, many companies have hit the capital market with their IPOs amid business […]

Ludhiana, known as the Manchester of India, will soon have its own international airport. The facility is coming up at the Halwara Air Force Station, which is one of the oldest frontline airbases of the Indian Air Force (IAF). While the tender document for the construction of new terminal building and associated works has been […]

New Delhi: The Air Force has a shortage of 405 pilots, the government told Lok Sabha on Wednesday. MoS Shripad Naik said the number of pilots at present was 3,834 against sanctioned 4,239. — PTI

American Airlines Co said on Friday that a Boeing 737 MAX bound for New Jersey’s Newark Liberty International Airport declared an emergency after the captain shut down one engine over a possible mechanical issue. American’s Flight 2555 from Miami with 95 passengers and six crew landed safely at Newark without incident, the airline said. The […]

French billionaire Olivier Dassault was killed on Sunday in a helicopter crash, a police source said, with President Emmanuel Macron paying tribute to the 69-year old conservative politician. Dassault was the eldest son of late French billionaire industrialist Serge Dassault, whose namesake Dassault Aviation, builds the Rafale war planes and owns Le Figaro newspaper. “Olivier […]

A team of the Union Civil Aviation Ministry inspected heliport projects in Mandi district yesterday. Pradeep Kumar Kharola, Secretary, Union Civil Aviation Ministry, and Joint Secretary Usha Padhi reviewed the status of the expansion and development of the Kangnidhar project in Mandi. Devesh Kumar, Secretary, Department of State Tourism and Civil Aviation, and Rugved Thakur, […]

The Chamba Welfare Association, an NGO, has demanded heli-taxi service at least once a week from Chamba to Shimla, Chandigarh and Amritsar. Association president AK Bhardwaj and general secretary SK Kashmiri in a statement to the media apprised the government that Chamba was the farthest place from Shimla, Chandigarh and Amritsar and the journey to […]

In a bizarre incident, a male passenger on a Pune-bound IndiGo flight was offloaded at the Delhi airport on Thursday evening after he told cabin crew that he was coronavirus positive just as the aircraft was preparing for take-off, according to sources. The incident happened on IndiGo flight 6E286 at around 5:30 pm on Thursday […]

With consent from the majority of farmers for expansion, the high-powered purchase committee headed by Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar has given the go-ahead for the expansion and renovation of Karnal Aviation Club. With it, the airstrip will be expanded to 5,000 feet from the existing 3,000 feet, enabling the majority of small and medium […]

More than half of the world’s airline pilots are no longer flying for a living amid the plunge in demand during the coronavirus pandemic, according to a new survey, and those that are still flying feel less valued by their employers. A poll of nearly 2,600 pilots by UK-based GOOSE Recruitment and industry publication FlightGlobal, […]

The COVID-19 pandemic might have hit the aviation sector badly, but the Economic Survey for 2020-21 has said that air passenger travel and aircraft movements are set to reach pre-COVID level in early 2021 as a result of swift and decisive interventions and effective measures put in place by the government. The survey has also […]

Delhi airport is evaluating a “computer vision” technology to track passengers, reduce waiting time and ensure social distancing at its terminals, a top official of the facility’s operator said on Tuesday. Computer vision technology uses images to analyse and understand passenger density at the airport. It has already been installed at the GMR group-led Hyderabad […]