Budget airline IndiGo on Friday announced that over the next two months it will start daily flights on six new routes which come under the Centre’s regional connectivity scheme UDAN. The flights will be to and from Prayagraj-Gorakhpur, Aizawl-Agartala and Varanasi-Bhubaneswar. Under the UDAN scheme, financial incentives in terms of concessions from the Centre, state […]
Category: Civil Aviation
LAHDC demands early operation of civil flights in Kargil
The Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council (LAHDC), Kargil, has demanded to expedite the work on the expansion of the Kargil airport to ensure early operation of civil flights in the district. Chief Executive Councillor of the LAHDC, Kargil, Feroz Ahmad Khan, along with officials held a meeting with Secretary to Union Civil Aviation Department Pardeep […]
MP smells controversy in airport expansion
The expansion of Gaggal airport is getting embroiled in political controversy. After the state government expedited the work for acquisition of land for its expansion a handful of affected farmers have started an agitation against the move. Some politicians are seeing a conspiracy behind the farmers agitation. BJP MP from Kangra Kishan Kapoor has alleged […]
No option but to privatise, Puri tells Air India unions
The government has no option but to privatise Air India as it has around Rs 80,000-crore debt and needs cooperation of the employees for carrying out the privatisation process, Minister of State for Civil Aviation Hardeep Singh Puri is said to have told the airline unions on Thursday. At a meeting with some 13 Air […]
Air India needs to be privatised; cooperation of employees important, Puri tells unions
The government has no option but to privatise Air India as it has around Rs 80,000-crore debt and needs cooperation of the employees for carrying out the privatisation process, civil aviation minister Hardeep Singh Puri is said to have told the airline unions on Thursday. At a meeting with some 13 Air India unions in […]
EoI for Air India in coming few weeks: Aviation Minister Hardeep Puri
Aviation Minister Hardeep Puri said on Tuesday that his ministry will try to issue expression of interest for Air India in the coming few weeks. Speaking at a press conference here, Puri said that while his ministry is the nodal ministry for aviation, he was not in charge of disinvestment. “Air India is a first […]
Flights from Hisar remain suspended for 3 months
The air shuttle services from the local airport have been suspended since September and they are unlikely to resume any time soon. Reason: the airport lacks the instrument landing system, which helps in landing in low visibility, and the night vision facility, sources say. Deputy Commissioner Ashok Kumar Meena said he had no information about […]
Now, IndiGo operates 1,500 daily flights
IndiGo has become the first domestic carrier to operate 1,500 flights per day, a feat which is in line with its expansion strategy. The 1,500th flight was operated in December, the airline said in a release. It had flown its 1,000th daily service in December last year. The airline currently has a fleet of 249 […]
Work on international airport at Halwara all set to take off
The proposed international airport project to come up at Halwara with an aim of putting the industrial capital of the state on the global air map has come a bit closer towards realisation with the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Punjab, issuing a notification under Sections 19 and 21 (1) of the Right to […]
Airlines make hay, raise fare to Srinagar by 3 times
Taking advantage of the backlog of travellers due to the suspension of air traffic for Srinagar on the third consecutive day, airlines have resorted to making hay by increasing the airfare by three times. The dense fog in Kashmir Valley affected the flight operations on Monday, leaving hundreds of people stranded in Jammu. Like their […]
BSF working on solutions to combat drones along Indo-Pak border: DG
The Border Security Force (BSF) is working on technical solutions to combat the threat of rogue drones along the India-Pakistan International Border, the chief of the force said on Sunday. BSF Director General V K Johri also said that the force has expanded its “strategic capabilities” by using new technology and intelligence to guard the […]
Flight from city to Kolkata takes off
IndiGo Airlines on Sunday started a daily flight from city to Kolkata and a temporary flight between city and Srinagar, besides another flight between city and Delhi. Airport director Manoj Chansoria, along with airline officials, cut a cake at the arrival of the inaugural flight. The occupancy level was nearly 90 per cent in the […]