The Indian government disclosed that 176 aircraft operated by non-scheduled and general aviation operators lack flight data and cockpit voice recorders, raising safety concerns. The disclosure was made in response to a query in the Rajya Sabha.
The victorious Indian women's cricket team led by Harmanpreet Kaur touched down in the national capital on Tuesday evening for its meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday.
Additionally, rates in the aviation sector are also expected to increase due to huge claim outgo in the Air India crash.
Turkiye and Azerbaijan backed Pakistan and condemned India's recent strikes on terror camps in that country and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir under Operation Sindoor.
Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan and five members of his team were stopped for an hour at the Mumbai airport by customs officials for not paying customs duty for six luxury watches as the payment facility was not operational in the early hours of Saturday, an official said.
The maintenance, repairs and overhault firm, which has six investors, received its first external funding from GTI Group and Punj Lloyd in 2007. All existing investors will exit the company following the transaction.
Charters, Udan flights choking Mumbai airport; MIAL may shift general aviation to Navi Mumbai once the airport is ready
Chinese economy slowed down to 6.9 per cent last year.
The promoter-brothers, distant cousins to IndiGo's Rahul Bhatia, are eyeing Air India's ground handling subsidiary to augment their aviation services business even as they make a big play in EVs.
China has made the world's first electric passenger aircraft that could be used in pilot training, tourism, meteorology and rescue operations.
'The need for added safety has bolstered demand for charter flights in the last year and is expected to continue.'
Aviation experts say the existing airports cannot be viable.
The government is coming out with a policy for setting up greenfield airports for general aviation in the next three to four months. It is also planning to introduce an air cargo policy soon.The broad contours of the policy for general aviation, which includes private charters and corporate jet operations, are more or less in line with the merchant airport policy.
The European Aviation Safety Agency (which represents all EU countries) has also raised the red flag on the issue.
The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has stopped issuing temporary landing permits (TLPs) to air crew of foreign-registered business jets, citing security concerns.
Small aircraft operators want better infra at regional airports.
Business jets and chartered flights have been an unlikely victim of the recent corruption scandals involving India Inc.
Priced at $22.2 million, Hawker 4000 has redefined standards for business aviation.
The downturn in the aviation industry has not discouraged real estate companies, flying academies and large industrial houses from India eyeing private airport development.
The flight operations remained unaffected across the country on Thursday but litter piled up in many airports as the indefinite strike by airport employees against closure of Bangalore and Hyderabad airports entered the second day.After talking tough, the government reached out to the agitating employees assuring them that the old airports in Hyderabad and Bangalore would be used for general aviation and they have "nothing to worry about their future".
With the high net worth individual (HNIs) base growing rapidly in the country, banking institutions and finance corporations are now intensifying their lending operations in the field of aviation.
Various airlines in India have engaged nearly 1,000 foreign pilots. However, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation has advised all scheduled, non-scheduled and general aviation operators to submit their plan to phase out foreign pilots and replace them by trained Indian pilots. As per the plan, all the foreign pilots are likely to be repatriated in about 5 years time. Government has taken steps to reduce the gap between demand and supply of skilled India pilots.
In wake of the airport employees' strike, Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel said that old airports in Hyderabad and Bangalore were not being closed down and that efforts would be made to expand operations there. They will be used for general aviation, apart from defence purposes and national emergencies. However, he said it was difficult to give any commitment in this regard now. He asked the strikers to halt protest in the interest of the nation and the travelling public.
Fares to key routes such as Delhi, Bengaluru, and Hyderabad may shoot up 80 per cent
As the burgeoning spate of growth in air traffic continues, an explosive rise of 40 per cent is also projected in the number of privately-owned planes, like small aircraft or business jets in the next couple of years.
Till now, aircraft that are more than 15 years old were not allowed to be imported
A suspicious low-altitude drone flying in the restricted airspace of the Chinese capital that sparked a major security alert and delayed a number of commercial flights, was shot down by the People's Liberation Army military helicopter, state-media reported one year after the incident.
The DGCA's unprecedented move came after the regulator's team found that several flights operated by GMR Aviation in the last month, including one on Monday when an aircraft flew Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi to Bhubaneshwar, had skipped some mandatory tests, DGCA sources said.
FAA had downgraded India's safety ranking from category-II from -I after an audit revealed deficiencies in regulatory oversight.
The Indian government's decision in 2012 to allow foreign direct investment in civil-aviation sector up to 49 per cent has enthused new airlines to launch their operations and capitalise on country's 1.2 billion population, a pre-statement to the Global Aerospace Summit said.
BAOA says the recent downgrade of India by the America's FAA was triggered primarily by a shortage of qualified staff for conducting safety and airworthiness inspections of aircraft.
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With Civil Aviation Minister Ashok Gajapathi Raju favouring such checks, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation has prepared a monthly programme of surveillance of airports as well as of all schedule, non-schedule and general aviation companies, foreign airlines and the aviation wings of state governments, they said.
Captain John M Cox, who spent 25 years flying for United States Airways and is now the chief executive officer of safety operating systems at Washington DC, talks to Rediff.com's Vicky Nanjappa about the MH17 Malaysian Airlines flight which was shot down in Ukraine on Thursday night killing 298 people on board.
In its flight performance, it can move up to a maximum speed of 180 km/h and minimum speed for level flight at 50 km/h.
Experts are divides on whether a new international airport should be developed at Greater Noida.
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