The co-pilot believed to have deliberately crashed a Germanwings plane into the French Alps was classified as suicidal "several years ago" but had appeared more stable of late, German prosecutors said.
Air Deccan has opened bookings across all Airbus flights for travel between September 1 and October 29, 2006.
Budget airlines are now set to explore the non-metro markets. With high growth prospects there, the carriers are pumping in funds and offering attractive packages to lure customers.
Delhi and Mumbai may have made hasty temporary arrangements for the mammoth two-decker Airbus A380s to land exhibition flights earlier this year. But it is Hyderabad that will have south Asia's first A380-compatible airport, which begins commercial operations on March 16, 2008.
An Air India aircraft, with 168 people on board, suffered a tyre burst on landing at the airport in Jaipur on Sunday night after being diverted from Delhi due to bad weather.
He said the ministry was considering bidding out the airstrips in blocks for development as it might not be feasible to do it individually.
The pilot of Air India's flight 348 detected the technical glitch and landed the Airbus 310 safely at around midnight as emergency personnel were kept on standby, airport officials said.
With losses piling up, India's commercial aviation industry is set for a major consolidation that could cut out quite a few players
Mukesh Ambani, the country's richest man and chairman of Reliance Industries, is understood to have gifted his wife, Nita, a unique, customised, plush corporate jet, on her birthday which was on November 1.
Come June, Air India will mark its re-entry into international air cargo operations.
According to Airbus sources close to the development, "Airbus has already made its presentation to Air India and also to the ministry. Whenever they are ready and instruct us to put in the bid, we will do so." The order could be around $3 billion, based on the list price of the aircraft. But, the negotiated price may vary.
IndiGo is arguably more a financial services company than airline.
Cut-throat competition in the India-UK route has taken its toll on the UK's second largest full service scheduled airline bmi (British Midland).
The Ambani brothers, Tata group, GVK Group, GMR Group and Larsen & Toubro are among the top players bidding for the greenfield Navi Mumbai airport, the second airport project in Mumbai.
Thanks to the leapfrogging Indian economy, the country will need 125 freighter aircraft in next 20 years. At present, India has only seven bigger freighters, owned by Blue Dart Express.
It would offer 15% discount to its premium economy class passengers bound for the US from India.
All passengers are safe and they de-boarded the plane after being in the aircraft for about an hour.
National carrier Air India will have two maintenance, repair and overhaul facilities for its aircraft, one in Nagpur and the other in Delhi.
Germany's foreign intelligence agency helped the Central Investigation Agency track down Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, before the Al Qaeda leader was killed by United States special forces in May 2011, according to a media report today.
The John F Kennedy Airport will receive the plane from Frankfurt, Germany, with Lufthansa's frequent flyers, reporters and news crews on board in the test flight to the United States before it starts commercial operations.
Starting September 23, the Doha-based carrier will launch twice-weekly flights to Nagpur and on December 12, it will start daily operations between Doha and Ahmedabad, a statement by the airline said.
The conglomerate, which has received environmental clearance for the project, plans to invest around Rs 1,500 crore in it.
The letter was sent as an early warning of what was then widely being perceived as a plunder of national resources.
Tam Arlines, Brazil's largest, said Airbus 320 was carrying 170 passengers and a crew of six when it crashed into the airline's own offices across the airport, located within Sao Paulo city limits.
Most airlines have fattened their profits, turned the corner, or cut their losses, except AirAsia India.
Budget carrier Air Deccan, which has the largest network in India covering 60 airports and operating more than 300 flights a day, may hive off its highly profitable ATR Turboprop aircraft operations into a separate company.
Liquor baron Vijay Mallya, who acquired 26 per cent stake in the country's largest budget carrier, Air Deccan, for Rs 550 crore (Rs 5.5 billion) on May 31, is still in high spirits.
Fresh trouble seems to be brewing for liquor baron Vijay Mallya, with Mumbai International Airport(MIAL) deciding to sell a mid-sized corporate jet owned by his group company.
Five decades ago, 87 plane crashes took away the lives of 1,597 people.
Kingfisher was the first Indian airline to place orders for five A-380 in June 2005 with Airbus.
The John Lethbridge, a privately owned deep-sea survey and recovery vehicle, is now headed to Alexandria to hand over the remains to prosecution and forensic authorities in the presence of members of the investigation committee.
The world's largest airplane, the A380 is coming to Delhi and Mumbai airports on May 7 and May 9.
Airplane engine major Pratt & Whitney is planning to set up an aircraft engine workshop in India
Divers on Monday retrieved the crucial flight data recorder of the AirAsia plane from the Java Sea in a potential breakthrough to solve the mystery of the crash, as an Indonesian official said the jet 'exploded' on impact with the water due to rapid change in pressure.
This is also the highest ever profit recorded by the carrier, which was facing turbulent times a year ago.
A notification from the ministry has raised the minimum equity capital requirement for a five-fleet carrier that wants to fly Airbuses and Boeings (or aircraft above 40,000 kg weight) from Rs 30 crore to Rs 50 crore.
Amid reports of sighting of more debris by a Russian search team, divers on Tuesday recovered two more bodies from choppy waters in the JavaSea, though there was still no trace of the crucial black box of the crashed AirAsia aircraft that crashed nine days ago.
Several bilateral economic agreements were expected to be signed on Thursday.
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