The Kapil Dev-led Indian team, which won the 1983 World Cup, left for London on Tuesday to celebrate the silver jubilee of their historic triumph at Lord's. The entire team, barring Ravi Shastri, left for the British capital where Sunil Gavaskar has organised a dinner to celebrate 25 years of the victory on Wednesday.
Air India will be saving $150 million over 15 years by mounting advanced General Electric engines GE90-115B on its 27 Boeing 777-300ERs aircraft.
Most Indian businessmen I speak to place a huge premium on the ability to move now and block the space. It's happening in aviation, the media, commodities and finance, to list a few sectors.
Total revenue dropped to Rs 5,406 crore in the first quarter of the current financial year from Rs 5,508 crore in the same period a year ago
In its bid to grab Air India orders, US aircraft manufacturer Boeing on Tuesday said it had offered a "comprehensive competitive pricing" to the public sector carrier, whose decision to purchase 50 aircraft of different makes was yet to get governmen
In the largest such order, UAE's flagship Emirates Airline on Monday announced an order of 42 Boeing 777 aircraft, to be powered by GE90 jet engines, in a deal worth $9.7 billion.
Air India's entire European operations are carried out with Boeing Dreamliner planes.
To sell five Boeing 777s, replacing these with cheaper aircraft
$3.6 billion worth of aircraft - by today's prices - are lying idle or are in hangers due to poor maintenance and management
An Airbus A-380 of the Singapore Airlines (SIA) on Friday took off from Singapore for Delhi, marking the maiden flight of the superjumbo to India.
The government has cleared the lone bid of Airbus-TATA consortium for replacing Indian Air Force's fleet of ageing Avro transport aircraft for Rs 11,930 crore besides approving Russia's offer to build Kamov Ka-226T helicopters under 'Make in India' initiative.
would also take on board its strategic investment partner Etihad
Following the incident, all flights at Stansted had to be temporarily grounded, according to British media reports.
In 2014, about 650,000 customers used Emirates' Wi-Fi service on board.
In another development, SBI Capital Markets, which had issued the expressions of interest on April 8, extended the deadline for submission of initial bids to April 12.
With introduction of double-decked Airbus A380, the whole first class space has undergone transformation.
It is raining trouble for Air India's Dreamliner fleet as one of the aircraft was forced to return to New Delhi on Thursday after developing a windshield crack mid-air on its way to Kolkata.
Over 240 people on board a Singapore Airlines flight on Monday had a narrow escape as their jet caught fire while making an emergency landing at Changi Airport here after it turned back en route to Milan following an engine oil warning message but they were safely evacuated.
On Indian routes, Air France, British Airways and Virgin Atlantic are offering premium economy seating
The United Arab Emirates' General Civil Aviation Authority, which is probing the incident, said the work was underway to recover the flight data and cockpit voice recorders, also known as "black boxes", that will be analysed at its facility in Abu Dhabi.
With IndiGo executing its long haul low-cost plans the airline will certainly need a lot of cash going forward.
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) is probing the incident of an Air India flight, AI 123, from New Delhi to Rome losing radio contact over Italy on October 16.
Five decades ago, 87 plane crashes took away the lives of 1,597 people.
At present, Air India offers eight first class, 35 business class and 195 economy class seats in its Boeing 777 200-LRs.
"We can confirm that there are no fatalities among our passengers and crew. All passengers and crew are accounted for and safe," the airlines said in statement.
National carrier Air India became part of the 27-member global airlines grouping Star Alliance, as budget airline AirAsia India launched operations and Tata-SIA joint venture carrier Vistara received the flying permit and announced its intentions to start operations from January 9.
Whether this happens because DGCA actually cares about the future of the national carrier or for other motives is not clear.
Ninety years later, BA counts the country as its second-biggest overseas market after the US.
A financial turnaround with the Etihad partnership and debt restructuring has not fully materialised.
