A New Delhi-bound Air India airplane made an emergency landing at Nawabshah Airport in southern Sindh on Monday after developing a technical problem with its hydraulic system. All 122 passengers and crew members on board the plane are safe.
Air-India and Indian Airlines are to submit another aircraft acquisition proposal for long haul jets and replacement of wide-bodied planes, respectively.
"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.
Life of air passengers was different in the 1970s.
Dispute arose as Indian carriers objected to Emirates flying passengers beyond Dubai, and Dubai authorities complained that Indian airlines have been flying more flights than allocated to its carriers.
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.
AirAsia India, which is using the training facilities of its parent airline AirAsia in Malaysia, plans to set up similar facilities in India in the coming years, airline sources said.
India on Tuesday night got permission to dock its ship at the Aden harbour for the evacuation of nearly 400 Indians from the sea port city as the government launched a massive air and sea evacuation operation for its over 4,000 nationals in strife-torn Yemen.
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.
On Wednesday, Air India had carried out a test flight landing at the naval base.
Montreal-based Air Canada is to resume flights to India with a daily non-stop service between Toronto and New Delhi effective October 27.
The Air-India board on Saturday gave its nod to acquire 28 new aircraft as part of fleet expansion and the acquisition at a cost of about Rs 10,000 crore (Rs 100 billion).
This was good enough for Fernandes to hire Chandilya to lead his India business.
Nearly a third of 18,000 Indians, stuck in strife-torn Libya, would have been evacuated by Tuesday through air and sea.
On the eve of German President Horst Kohler's India visit, which begins on February 1, Germany has expressed deep disappointment over rejection by India of the contract for the purchase of Airbus A-330 MRTT (multi-role tanker transport) aircraft.
After remaining shut for four days, the main runway of the Mumbai airport was on Monday reopened after a team of engineers towed away a Turkish Airways' Airbus 340 aircraft, which got stuck in the mud when it skidded off the tarmac, airport officials said.
Jet Airways, IndiGo and GoAir achieved operating profits of Rs 122.6 crore (Rs 1.22 billion), Rs 795.8 crore (Rs 7.95 billion) and Rs 85.1 crore (Rs 851 million) respectively during the same period, Minister of State for Civil Aviation K C Venugopal said in reply to a question.
IndiGo was set up in 2006 by businessman Rahul Bhatia and Rakesh Gangwal, a former CEO for US Airways Group.
The decision comes hours after an A320 neo aircraft of IndiGo suffered engine failure mid-air and made an emergency landing at Ahmedabad airport.
J R D Tata's flight carrying mail between the two cities was the first by an Indian company and it opened the air link to peninsular India.
Air India expects to wipe out some red marks from its balance sheet.
Air India, Jet Airways and United fly to these airports from Mumbai and Delhi.
Of the 62 Airbus-320 family of aircraft, AI has started converting 14 to single-class configuration and to decrease the number of business-class seats in 43 others from 20 seats per aircraft to 12.
The pilot of a Bangalore-bound Air India aircraft, with around 125 passengers on board, landed under emergency conditions at Bhopal airport when he found the cockpit door jammed as he tried to open it to visit the washroom, airline sources said on Tuesday.
Jet Airways remains the number one airline serving foreign routes.
The board of state-run international flag carrier Air-India Ltd on Saturday deferred a key multi-billion-dollar plan to buy up to 17 planes from either Boeing or Airbus, a spokesman said.\n\n\n\n
The board of international flag carrier Air-India will take a final decision on April 9 on a multi-billion-dollar plan to buy up to 17 planes from either Boeing or Airbus, a spokesman said.
If Emirates Airlines is caught in the Dubai debt crisis, it may force the carrier to moderate its expansion, which could hurt aircraft manufacturers like Boeing and Airbus, as it has placed orders worth $55 billion with them.
For the first time, the country's largest airline IndiGo will soon lease up to four wide-body Boeing 777 planes to cover the shortfall in its international operations, according to officials. The airline said the wet-leasing of "certain aircraft" will be done as an interim measure. IndiGo, which has so far only been operating narrow-body Airbus planes, ATRs and freighters, will now be having wide-body aircraft in its fleet.
In its bid to revive its cargo service, Air-India has issued tenders to induct four freighter aircraft on lease by March to start operations from April.
With this, the biggest buyer of Airbus SE A320neo planes seems to be moving away from Pratt & Whitney engines, which have been experiencing glitches. CFM International will deliver the first engine by 2020.
Airline's auditor attributes profit to changes in accounting system; GoAir says full disclosure made and auditor's note is unqualified
The AirAsia aircraft that went missing after taking off from Indonesia with 162 people on board may be at the bottom of the sea, a top Indonesian official said on Monday, as the multinational search for the Airbus continued amid fading hopes of finding any survivors.
"The return fare on economy class to most European capitals from Mumbai are close to 50,000 plus. If an LCC can offer direct connectivity for a basic fare of 25,000 with additional top ups for meals, baggage and blankets, which further takes the fare to, say, 35,000, it is still a value deal."
All passengers are safe and they de-boarded the plane after being in the aircraft for about an hour.
The Mahindra Group struck up a series of high- profile deals with international aerospace players at the Air Show in Paris.
AirAsia's competitors are offering more reliable services.
