The national carrier has sought dry-leasing these planes for six years instead of buying them, as part of its Turnaround and Financial Restructuring Plans, airline sources said.
Investigators on Sunday began probing the crash of a Russian Airbus plane in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula that killed all the 224 people on board.
The government-owned airline has 63 narrow body planes from Airbus, including the A319 and A321.
While IndiGo had 11.8 per cent of all the international seats to and fro India in the last week of August, Air India's seat share was 11.4 per cent. Emirates came third with 8.1 per cent, and rest of the airlines constituted 68 per cent of the seat share.
The ATR 72-600 aircraft was accorded water salute as it landed at the Jaffna airport, about 400-km from capital Colombo.
A Pakistani passenger plane carrying 160 people on Wednesday crashed into the heavily forested Margalla Hills overlooking Islamabad due to bad weather.
$3.6 billion worth of aircraft - by today's prices - are lying idle or are in hangers due to poor maintenance and management
The 21 aircraft, comprising nine A-319s, eight A-321s and four A-320s, have already been delivered to the national carrier by European manufacturer Airbus, airline sources said on Tuesday.
To make space for the extra row, Vistara has opted for the smartLav concept offered by Airbus
This is the largest single dose of equity infusion into the joint venture since its launch in January 2015.
Air India has derostered nine employees, including two pilots, for taking on board three passengers in excess of the aircraft capacity on its flight from Mumbai to Mangalore two months ago.
In a clear violation of safety norms Air India allowed three extras passengers on board a fully loaded flight.
Aiming at launching international services, all-business-class carrier Paramount Airways on Friday placed a $1.5 billion order for acquiring 10 Airbus A-321 aircraft with each of them costing over $900 million.
Air India has announced that it will be adding to the seamless transfer facility to passengers from Bangalore travelling to international destinations like New York, Newark, London, Frankfurt and Chicago by introduction of a new hub and spoke flight between Bangalore and Mumbai from October 26.
Air India plans to phase out 11 of its 20-year-old Airbus 320 as it acquires new aircraft from the European aircraft manufacturer to augment its fleet, the airlines spokesman said on Thursday.
After being hit by a fuel price hike and capacity cut, it may be happy times again for the airline industry this festive season. While Kingfisher is looking at adding at least 15 new flights in the winter season, competitors Jet Airways, SpiceJet, IndiGo and Paramount are adding over 30 new flights together (arrivals and departures); they will do this through a combination of better utilisation of existing aircraft and inducting new fleet.
The airline would be accepting the bids till November 19.
The GoAir flight took off from the Indira Gandhi International airport in New Delhi at around 4 pm but the pilot detected problems in the plane's under carriage and so had to return it to the Delhi airport, airport sources said.
The first fresh-mint aircraft of the state-owned carrier, Indian, which has ordered 43 aircraft from the European manufacturer Airbus Industrie, arrived at the Indiara Gandhi International airport on Thursday morning.\n\n
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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
'A growing segment wants to fly Vistara but may not be really ready to pay for certain products that come with a full-service carrier. That is a large segment and we can't ignore it,' says CEO Leslie Thng.
The Union Cabinet on Thursday cleared Indian Airlines' plans to purchase 43 aircraft from Airbus Industrie.
The aircraft to be inducted by Indian Airlines are 19 Airbus A 319s, Four A 320s and 20 Airbus A 321s.
Indian Airlines has proposed to acquire 43 aircraft comprising A319, A320 and A321 for replacement of the ageing fleet of A300 and B737-200, government informed the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday.
India remained the world's fastest growing domestic aviation market with 51 straight months of doubled-digit traffic growth but the woes of passengers as well as carriers manifested in myriad forms.
Skipper Manish Pandey's valiant century was in vain as India 'A' lost to Australia 'A' by one run in a high-scoring Quadrangular cricket series thriller in Mackay, Australia, on Tuesday.
Indian Airlines has submitted a project report for aquisition of 43 aircraft comprising Airbus A-319s, Airbus A-320s and Airbus A-321s from Airbus Industries
"Indian Airlines has chosen to buy 43 Airbus planes. It's my strong wish the choice be finalised soon," said French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin on Thursday.
The lower quarterly profit was mainly due to rise in fuel costs, foreign exchange loss and lower yield
Both Vistara and AirAsia India, along with their partners, are quietly putting together an aggressive plan to become a formidable force in the skies. At the core of this new push is their plan to go international this financial year.
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Airline officials said the operational launch may be held in the later part of October.
The national airline had incurred a net loss of Rs 5,859.91 crore (Rs 58.59 billion) last fiscal.
It's too big to digest as one whole airline.'
The airline will utilise new Airbus A320s, scheduled for delivery this year, to accommodate much of the increased frequencies.
The first Airbus A-320 aircraft of Tata-SIA joint venture Vistara airline, painted with its logo and livery, landed at the IGI Airport in New Delhi on Wednesday, taking the carrier a step closer to its launch.
Air India's home market share has fallen from 19.8% in January to 18% in July.
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