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.
Prabhat Kumar, who has been appointed as the DGCA chief three months ago, is taking steps to ensure safety of passengers.
Small aircraft operators want better infra at regional airports.
DGCA considers this in wake of Malaysian tragedy; no rules to gauge mental state now.
The Civil Aviation Ministry is looking to increase air seat entitlement to Dubai by 20%.
DGCA asks those likely to be affected by a scheduled air operator's permit to the airline to give suggestions, objections within 30 days.
Apollo and Cooper are yet to make the customary rounds of courts to settle termination charges and break-up fees, but the mood already is buoyant among institutional investors who had red-flagged the highly leveraged transaction agreed upon by the Indian company.
November IIP data show a fall of over 20%, led by automobiles, gems & jewellery and home appliances; turnaround seen as unlikely.
While waiting for an independent aviation agency to be legislated, moves to address American aviation authority's audit rap.
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The ministry of civil aviation has disagreed with a proposal of the Prime Minister's Office to explore raising the cap on the number of weekly flights from Qatar in exchange for discounts on additional supplies of liquefied natural gas from there.
Following the entry of Tata-SIA and AirAsia into the Indian aviation market, the domestic aviation industry is seeing increased interest from private entities.
To sell five Boeing 777s, replacing these with cheaper aircraft
Norms limiting airlines' stake in SPVs managing airports to hurt Tatas.
While four of the directors would be nominated by Tata Sons, the other two would be representatives of Singapore Airlines.
Singapore Airlines first approached the Tatas, its old choice for a venture in India, and was aware of AirAsia negotiations.
Tata-SIA will kick off with full-service domestic operations.
AirAsia says deal not violative of shareholder agreement.
The national carrier has drawn a blueprint to cut the number of recognised unions in the airline from 15 to two -- one for pilots and another for the rest of the employees.
Not needed, it says, with 4,600 staffers to retire over next 3 years, plus transfer of 12,000 to new subsidiaries
State-owned Air India has approached the ministry of finance for a sovereign guarantee to raise Rs 2,500 crore (Rs 25 billion) from banks, due to the government's inability to infuse all the required funds into the debt-laden carrier, given the current economic conditions.
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