'I will be happy when Indians will get to see a plane made by an Indian taking to the skies.'
Unlikely to happen in less than a year,despite the advantage of the parent airline's base.
India's second largest private carrier Kingfisher Airlines plans to more than double its fleet strength by adding 67 more aircraft by 2016, according to an investors' presentation made by the company.
Some 30-odd co-pilots were being "forced to work overtime" without any remuneration.
111 light helicopters have to be built indigenously through joint ventures between Indian and foreign firms.
German carrier Lufthansa wants to fly its superjumbo A-380s to India and is studying the pros and cons of when and which Indian city to operate from, top airline officials said on Tuesday.
"The PM defended his personal RAFALE bypass deal on 2 counts: 1. Better Price 2. Faster Delivery. Both have been demolished by the revelations in the Hindu today," he tweeted.
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.
AirAsia India began operations in June 2014.
At present, six A320 Neo of IndiGo & GoAir are grounded waiting for engine replacement
Tata Sons will increase its stake in budget carrier AirAsia India (AAI) to 83.67 per cent by acquiring an additional 32.67 per cent for $37.66 million from AirAsia Investment Ltd (AAIL), according to a regulatory filing. Currently, AAIL, which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Malaysia-based AirAsia, holds 49 per cent stake in the Bengaluru-based AirAsia India. In a regulatory filing to stock exchange Bursa Malaysia, AirAsia said, "The board of directors of AirAsia wishes to announce that its wholly-owned subsidiary AAIL and Tata Sons Pvt Ltd, India, on December 29, entered into a share purchase agreement."
Air-India board to mull craft purchase on Jan 24
At present, it operates A380 on the Delhi and Mumbai routes.
PM said he admires German leadership in clean energy and commitment to combating climate change.
The losses are primarily because the venture operated only for 18 days in June, with only two flights.
Vistara has accelerated fleet expansion plan from June 2018 to earlier, open to talks with Boeing as well.
'We are going to have plane crashes left, right and centre.'
The government-owned airline has 63 narrow body planes from Airbus, including the A319 and A321.
The CBI today registered three FIRs and a preliminary enquiry to probe alleged irregularities in Indian Airlines-Air India merger and purchase of 111 aircraft, leasing of planes and giving up of profit-making routes by Air India, causing a loss of thousands of crore of rupees.
The airline will fly the A320s between the Tier-II and Tier-III cities.
Air India did not respond to email queries.
IndiGo has confirmed the delivery of the next set of 25 ATR-72 jets and will be inducting around 10 planes by the end of this calendar year, making it the largest regional fleet operator in the country.
The number of such incidents stood at 25 in 2015, 31 in 2014 and 23 in 2013.
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.
The Indian government's decision in 2012 to allow foreign direct investment in civil-aviation sector up to 49 per cent has enthused new airlines to launch their operations and capitalise on country's 1.2 billion population, a pre-statement to the Global Aerospace Summit said.
"When the A320 plane, which did not have any passengers as it was heading to Moscow to bring back stranded Indians under Vande Bharat Mission, had reached Uzbekistan's airspace, our team on ground realised that one of the pilots had tested COVID-positive," senior Air India officials said.
Starting as a maker of hydraulic pumps, the Bengaluru-based company graduated to components for automakers like BMW and Audi, and then Airbus and Boeing
The Congress leader is also being probed by ED in two separate money-laundering cases of Aircel-Maxis and INX Media.
Together with Jet Airways we will have 61 flights to Amsterdam and Paris during the winter season. That also makes us the second largest airline group after Lufthansa, which has 67 weekly flights, and we are catching up to become the first, says KLM CEO Pieter Elbers.
Air India is keen to raise working capital by selling aircraft.
The carrier planned to bring in a plane a month from March to build a fleet of at least 10 jets by the end of the year.
Ending a seven-year-long wait, the Star Alliance Chief Executive Board, at its meeting in London on Monday, gave an endorsement vote to induct Air India into the fold.
IndiGo's president Aditya Ghosh shares the growth plan.
As Kashmir valley remains under flood water, Air India has decided to ferry free of cost tourists trapped in Srinagar while Gujarat and Bihar governments are sending 75,000 food and dry food packets for affected people.
Aviation turbine fuel accounts for 35-40 per cent of the total operating cost of an Indian airline.
While the first wave of moving work to India was driven by cost considerations, increasingly companies are banking on local talent to add value to their business by jointly developing products and solutions.
Trouble is again brewing in Air India ahead of the upcoming busy holiday season, with a section of pilots resenting a proposed 15 per cent cut in their allowances, saying such a reduction would place their pay packets below what was prevailing in the market.
Ninety years later, BA counts the country as its second-biggest overseas market after the US.
The defence and aerospace sectors have seen at least over Rs 10,000 crore worth of MoUs being signed during the summit.
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