Sources said the DGCA is reviewing tests by the US-based Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and European Air Safety Agency (EASA) on mobile phone usage on board aircraft.
Road ministry proposes an amendment to Motor Vehicles Act.
Limited capacity addition this year despite burgeoning growth in international travel, easier visa norms for Europe and the US and huge cancellation charges have all led to an unprecedented seat shortage and an increase in ticket prices.
Slower fleet expansion, fewer new flights could end cheap travel option.
Come mid-April, India's largest private airline, Jet Airways, will don a fresh look. The Naresh Goyal-promoted airline will have fresh internal and external livery for aircraft to reflect its new corporate image.
Sources said the company had already applied for a licence to produce defence products.
For the first time in its history, state-run carrier Air-India will sell its six Airbus A310-300 aircraft to a European bank and lease them back to its fleet for operations, in a sale-and-lease back deal.
Thanks to the entry of global giants into the retail space and a resurgence in manufacturing, the international logistics majors are now busy in acquiring middle level Indian logistics companies to have their presence in the country.
Bartending is an art that also pays very well. A bar tender on an average earns anywhere between Rs 500,000 to Rs 900,000 in India.
French aerospace and defence major Safran may team up with the state-run Defence Research and Development Organisation for indigenously developing an unmanned aerial vehicle project at a cost of over $1 billion.
For harried passengers flying peak hours from metros, no respite from delayed flights and landings is in sight.
Air-India, which had placed a $7.2 billion order for 68 Boeing planes, has set up an internal committee to consider new aircraft acquisitions.
Even as the government is aiming at creating an airline behemoth to take on Asian tigers such as Singapore Airlines and Thai Airways, the merged Air-India and Indian Airlines entity will not dominate even the Indian skies.
The US-based home delivery and logistics company Specialised Transportation Inc is entering into Indian market by entering into a strategic alliance with Patel Retail, a subsidiary of Patel Integrated Logistics.
Domestic airlines may soon be able to hedge their risk of jet fuel prices. The government is considering a proposal to allow Indian carriers to hedge the price risk of aviation turbine fuel purchased from oil marketing companies in the country.
The congestion at Australia's Newcastle Port is bringing cheers to Indian shipping companies.
Air India CMD Vasudevan Thulasidas said the combined entity will have a change management consultant which will enable employees to be IT-savvy.
Lockheed Martin is in talks with Infosys Technologies, Wipro, Reliance Industries, the Tata group, Larsen & Toubro and Hindustan Aeronautics to source software services, components and systems.
In the 42 months since Air Deccan became a credible and stable challenger to the erstwhile ruling triumvirate of Jet Airways, Indian Airlines and Sahara, the new entrants have garnered about 44 per cent of share of the market.
According to the figures for January, budget carriers alone -- such as SpiceJet, GoAir, IndiGo, apart from Deccan -- have 34 per cent share of the market. A year ago, the figure was only 20.8 per cent.
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