Last year, Jet Airways and Air France-KLM signed an enhanced cooperation agreement' for the development of their operations between Europe and India
To make space for the extra row, Vistara has opted for the smartLav concept offered by Airbus
If all goes well, from December, drones can be used for purpose like mapping, surveying and photography, which till now was illegal due to absence of any guidelines.
Airline told to transfer non-core assets, subsidiaries to special purpose vehicle
'Boeing has returned some cash to the airline which will help it improve the current liquidity crisis.'
The ministry has also asked that the cap of such borrowings is to be set at $500 million (Rs 3,450 crore) for a single company and $1 billion (Rs 6,900 crore) for the entire sector.
At present, six A320 Neo of IndiGo & GoAir are grounded waiting for engine replacement
The airline is not convinced that it will have a sizeable passenger traffic to make wide body operations profitable
The charges for security component of passenger service fees will not increase much and a passenger may have to bear an extra of Rs 50
Airline to deploy around 50 planes in the next seven months
One thing is certain: The part-Goan, part-Malayali group CEO of Air Asia is not your usual boardroom CEO, and he cultivates the maverick businessman image, buying race car teams and football clubs and taking off-beat bets with his mentor and now buddy Richard Branson of Virgin.
'Experience of administration may make a member of civil service a good administrator but not necessarily an able and impartial adjudicator,' observes the Supreme Court.
JD-S sources read it as an attempt by Modi to sow seeds of doubt in the Opposition ranks.
The low fares will come with a discernible sea-change in service quality and minus the luxury which comes as an essential part of any long-haul travel
IndiGo and other airlines have said they are improving their staff training, looking at better ways of communication and customer awareness on operational matters.
It is likely the airports - Chennai, Kolkata, Kochi, Pune, Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Lucknow and Guwahati - will be bid out for 30 years and the tariffs will be fixed upfront.
The IPL uses this system for players' auction.
Corporate ministry documents show that the Siva's firm kept taking loans from public sector banks like State Bank of India, Punjab National Bank which gradually turned to bad loans.
Aditya Ghosh, with no prior aviation background or MBA degree, managed not only to become the CEO of an airline but even piloted it to the top with almost half of the market.
Air India buyer has to take over interest-bearing debt of Rs 16,500 crore a large portion of which is aircraft related, meaning they are backed by aircraft value