Amid rains, a 24-hr struggle to clear main runway of Mumbai airport

Air India engineers braved incessant rains to pull out the 41-tonne aircraft which caused one of the biggest disruptions on the main runway since August 2011. Arindam Majumder reports.......

Ex-IAF officer creates plane to conquer fear of flying

'It's like your private Boeing 747 which you can fly yourself.''This concept brings the aeroplane closer to passengers and opens the cockpit to everyone.'Former IAF officer Dinesh Nair has built an......

Flier steps into co-pilot's shoes mid-air, lands safely

When someone falls ill on a plane, the usual announcement would traditionally be, "Is there a doctor around?"But when mid-air a co-pilot of a Frankfurt-bound plane fell ill, the crew wished for a......

World's largest jetliners to debut in US

The world's largest passenger jetliners -- two 555-seater double-decker Airbus A-380s -- are expected to make their debut in the United States with almost simultaneous landings in New York and Los......

Coronavirus fears see drop in domestic flight bookings

Executives of Indian airlines said that the drop is primarily for flights to major metro cities like Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Bangalore, which are the prime revenue generators on the domestic......

1st non-stop Bengaluru-US flight from Oct

The new service by American Airlines will provide connectivity to tech hubs in both the countries. Bengaluru will get the first non stop flight to US in October with American Airlines announcing a......

Vistara inks codeshare pact with Lufthansa

Apart from Delhi, Mumbai and Chennai, the codeshare agreement with Lufthansa will cover Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Goa, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Kochi and Pune. Vistara has entered into a codeshare pact......

Vistara likely to order over 100 aircraft in expansion bid

The Delhi-based airline currently has 13 Airbus A320 aircraft in the fleet and it plans to take another seven (A320 Neo) planes by June 2018. Full service carrier Vistara is likely to place a mega......