In a path-breaking expansion bid, Jet Airways on Tuesday signed a deal with Airbus to buy ten A 330-200 and A 330-300 aircraft, with options to acquire ten more aircraft.
Given the school break, this is the peak travel season and companies catering to the 'friends and family' segment are expected to gain.
Deccan Airways is all set to introduce its New Delhi-Jabalpur service from December 15.
Travels to Gulf accounted for 40% of India's international air traffic in 2016.
"We badly need the new fleet," Commercial Director of Air India V K Verma said without going into the lingering controversy over the national carrier's recent decision to buy 50 aircraft from Boeing, arch-rival of Airbus.
Budget airline Air Deccan plans to start its first service to Kerala on the Kochi-Delhi sector from December this year, followed by a service to Lakshadweep, according to a top executive of the company.
Indian Airlines' plan to buy 43 aircraft is likely to get the nod of the Union Cabinet soon, Civil Aviation Secretary Ajay Prasad said on Tuesday.
Jet Airways is planning to introduce six flights a week from Mumbai to Newark in the United States from mid-June and aims to step up its daily flights to 21 services a week from India to Singapore in its winter schedule.
Air Sahara on Thursday announced that it would launch its international operations between April and July and change its colour to orange, white, green and blue from Friday.
French aviation watchdog BEA said vertical separation between the two aircraft 'was zero feet' while the least horizontal separation between the two planes was reduced to just 0.6 NM.
The Indian Airlines' plan to acquire 43 aircraft at a cost of Rs 10,000 crore (Rs 100 billion) has been further delayed with the indefinite postponement of a crucial meeting of the Public Investment Board.
Air Deccan has introduced two new schemes, the Super Flier and Super Flier Plus.
The fleet acquisition programme of Indian Airlines will move one step forward on January 29 when the Public Investment Board takes up the issue to finalise the plan, official sources said on Thursday.
Air-India and Indian Airlines are to submit another aircraft acquisition proposal for long haul jets and replacement of wide-bodied planes, respectively.
Liquor baron Vijay Mallya's Kingfisher Airlines will commence operations during the first quarter of 2005.
New reports have suggested that the captain of the Germanwings plane had yelled at the co-pilot Andreas Lubitz to open the door of the cockpit as he tried to use a crowbar to force his way into the cockpit during the horrific descent.
Media reports have said that the Germanwings co-pilot who crashed his Airbus in the French Alps had told his ex-girlfriend that "one day everyone will know my name."
The precaution was made compulsory after a incident.
Evidence from a cockpit voice recorder, retrieved from the crash site in the French Alps, indicated that one pilot left the cockpit before the plane's descent and was unable to get back inside, The New York Times reports.
Engine snag forces IndiGo to ground 7 new aircraft
One can only imagine how it is at the receiving end of the bomb. The sound is deafening, splinters and rocks fly like missiles and the blast sucks in the air around asphyxiating everyone. The shock waves can be felt for miles around.
The one-way fare on executive class would be Rs 2,640 and in the economy class it would be Rs 1,825, it said.\n\n
Air Deccan, the low-cost domestic airline, has planned to increase by December its daily flights from 70 to 100 as well as to secure a part of the "ethnic market" of West Asia in the foreseeable future
r Deccan, India's first low-cost airline, created history on Wednesday by flying passengers to Delhi from Bangalore for a fare of only Rs 500, plus taxes (Rs 200).
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