Discounted tickets of Jet Airways are available for sale till Thursday
Of the 1,700 licences verified by it, the DGCA found seven cases of fake qualifications in mark sheets and flight hours.
Indian travellers have spent on an average Rs. 7,500 on excess baggage fees per person.
Anirvan Chatterjee and Barnali Ghosh look back on their Year of No Flying.
The survey measured over 38 items of airline product and service standards.
Worldwide air transport volumes are set to double within 15 years, given the average annual growth of 4.5 percent, and by the year 2050 they will have increased six-fold, to around 3 billion tonne-kilometres transported.
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Budget air-carrier AirAsia has began its three day travel fair, offering 20 per cent discounts on flights across the airline's network.
Hogan questioned the claims of the airlines campaigning against Etihad.
China plans to build a second airport in Beijing, which is expected to handle 60 million passengers a year, at a cost of whopping $15 billion to meet the growing rush of air-travellers in the country.
Civilian Aviation Minister Praful Patel did not ask for an apology when he met United States Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano in Montreal for being questioned by immigration authorities at the Chicago airport. "He (Patel) didn't ask for an apology, but we did talk about what is needed in both countries to make sure that air travel remains safe," Napolitano said.
Samridhi Bhardwaj analyses the dynamics of duty-free liquor allowance in India.
The concern about such an explosive hidden in a laptop or an electronic device prompted the US and the UK to prohibit travelers flying out of 10 airports in eight countries in the Middle East and Africa from carrying laptops and other large electronic devices aboard planes.
The US has expressed "regret" and termed "unfortunate" the interrogation of Pakistani Army officials at Dulles International Airport, but said that it has not officially apologised to Islamabad for the incident.
A central panel has given the nod for expansion and modernisation of airports at Jalgaon, Hyderabad and Jaisalmer.
Air travellers may have to shell out hefty amounts if the fare bands proposed by airlines -- which will also take into account the distance factor -- are approved by the civil aviation regulator DGCA.
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.
A foggy Thursday morning brought bad news for air travelers in Delhi, as nearly 35 flights were delayed, and runway visibility dropped down to barely 50 meters.The national flights affected are Delhi-Amritsar, Delhi-Leh, Delhi- Bangalore, Jaipur-Mumbai, Delhi-Lucknow, Delhi-Mumbai, Delhi-Ahmedabad, and Guwahati-Imphal.Several international flights have also been affected like those coming from Singapore, Bahrain, Abu Dhabi, London, Istanbul, Tehran and Beijing.
The International Cricket Council (ICC) said it was preparing to fly teams participating in the Twenty20 World Cup starting next week directly from Dubai to the West Indies.
With the volcanic clouds over the European airspace virtually shutting down global air traffic, Air India on Saturday announced cancellation of flights to Europe and North America scheduled Sunday.
M&M is preparing a plan for carbon 'footprinting' of all group companies. That includes carbon emissions made even during air travel by employees.
'There were any number of Congress leaders who disliked Sonia Gandhi, but they were very close to Ahmed Bhai and he would listen, and give a shoulder to cry upon.'
Kamra allegedly heckled Goswami, the editor of Republic TV, on IndiGo's Mumbai-Lucknow (6E5317) flight on Tuesday.
Ban on purchase of vehicles, except for defence, continues.
'He always avoided eating non-vegetarian food in presence of his deputies if they were fasting for the month of Shravan.' 'There were no Hindu, Jain, Parsi and Swaminarayan festivals he would forget.' 'He was a conservative Muslim and therefore could get along well with conservative Hindus.'
India, the second fastest-growing economy in the world, does not figure in the brighter side of the aviation picture, because Indian civil aviation industry has been hugely loss-making (a $1.75 billion loss in 2009-10) and showing no signs of consolidation.
The Mangalore air-crash has proved, if proof were needed, that Indian air space remains a dangerous place for air travelers. The first reports have indicated that the accident may have been caused by pilot error. This is because pilot behaviour has been under investigation in a number of cases -- which could have led to accidents but fortunately didn't -- in recent months. The Directorate of Civil Aviation revealed in April that it was investigating 15 near misses.
Two of Europe's busiest airports -- London's Heathrow Airport and Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport -- closed down on Monday as a dense cloud of volcanic ash drifted from Iceland, aviation authorities said.
The Japanese round of the MotoGP world championship at Motegi next weekend has been called off due to air travel problems caused by the cloud of volcanic ash in Europe. Circuit officials said the race has been postponed and said details of alternative dates would be announced from the start of the week.
A Jet spokesperson said the private carrier would operate Newark-Mumbai-Newark and Toronto-Delhi-Toronto sectors by making a technical halt at Athens as an alternate temporary transit point through Europe.
The country's civil aviation fleet will have 4,800 to 5,000 planes to transport passengers and cargo in the next five years, up from the current 2,600 planes, he told the official China Daily.
RBI governor Das flags growth slowdown, deputy raises alarm on inflation
Domestic carriers flew 28 per cent more people last month compared to a year ago, as no-frill carrier IndiGo remained the market leader by cornering 28 per cent share.
Between 2009 and 2028, airlines in India will require 1,032 aircraft, worth about $138 billion, to serve the strong demand for passenger air travel and freight, and to replace ageing fleets with new more fuel-efficient aircraft, according Airbus's Global Market Forecast.
In his last Budget, Suresh Prabhu, set an ambitious target for capital expenditure.
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Swamy had written to the Election Commission, the DGCA and the Civil Aviation Ministry not to grant a license to the carrier.
In its report, the International Air Transport Association said that in 2009 intra-Asia-Pacific travellers numbered 647 million compared to 638 million who travelled within North America, including domestic markets.
The strict measures put in place by American authorities to screen air travellers from Pakistan have emerged as a major irritant in relations between the two countries, with President Asif Ali Zardari, on Friday, asking the US to review its new security policy.
Revamping Indian Railways will need bold thinking, and lots of money and time. And all three may be scarce, points out T N Ninan.
In what may come as a relief for airline companies, the number of domestic air travellers between January and March showed a healthy increase over the same period a year ago, when the industry was feeling the heat of the global recession.
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