With three more leased Airbus A310 joining the fleet, Air-India will link Seoul and introduce non-stop flights from Delhi to Kuala Lumpur and from Mumbai to Singapore and Kuala Lumpur next month.
Montreal-based Air Canada is to resume flights to India with a daily non-stop service between Toronto and New Delhi effective October 27.
After hectic diplomatic efforts, India finally got permission to land in Sanaa and the first flight with a passenger capacity of 120 has landed, the spokesperson in the external affairs ministry said.
Admiral Puri says it would be wasteful to buy a foreign helicopter, pay for transfer of technology, and develop manufacturing capability in an Indian private sector strategic partner when all this already exists with HAL.
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.
After Singapore Airlines and Emirates, German carrier Lufthansa on Saturday launched daily services of its super jumbo Airbus A-380s between Delhi and Frankfurt.
Delhi is the second Indian destination after Bengaluru.
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.
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).
Budget forces last minute change in finance minister's plans.
The inaugural flight took off in the presence of Minister of State for Civil Aviation, Mahesh Sharma, along with a number of other people.
Airline to deploy around 50 planes in the next seven months
TAL Manufacturing Solutions expects its indigenously made affordable industrial robot, the Brabo, to boost the robotics vertical and contribute almost 40 per cent of its overall revenues in the next five years. Sohini Das reports.
A reported bomb threat on a Delhi-bound Air India plane from Kochi, with 164 people on board, which landed under emergency conditions at the airport in Bangalore, was a hoax, police said on Tuesday.
With both Boeing and Airbus pitching for the medium capacity long-range aircraft order worth over $1.5 billion, the Air-India board would meet on Saturday to finalise its decision on buying 10 aircraft with options for seven more.
IndiGo is arguably more a financial services company than airline.
A part of the proceeds will also be used for operational requirements, sources said in Mumbai. The carrier has already taken the delivery of 11 Dreamliners and three more are expected to join the fleet by March of next year.
Major aircraft-maker Boeing on Tuesday heightened its pitch for Air India's plans to acquire 17 long-haul and 18 short-haul planes, claiming its 777-200 ERs (extended range) and 737-800s were best suited for the Indian carrier.
This was good enough for Fernandes to hire Chandilya to lead his India business.
Given the school break, this is the peak travel season and companies catering to the 'friends and family' segment are expected to gain.
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.
Air-India board, which met in Mumbai on Friday, deferred a decision on acquisition of short capacity, short range or SCSR aircraft, according to an A-I spokesperson.
Vistara Chief Executive Officer Phee Teik Yeoh is expected to meet the senior management of BA over the next few days to discuss the partnership.
Theresa May's visit to a Bengaluru aerospace systems supplier is seen as the UK's strategy to pursue new defence deals.
Qatar Airways said on Saturday that it was interested in bidding for the four metro airports and has formed a joint venture with an Indian company for this purpose.
On Demand Mobile Visa service is launched by VFS Global and UK Visas and Immigration.
It has aircraft utilisation target of 16 hours as against the current 13 hours.
Long-haul low-cost carriers like Scoot and AirAsia X offer a similar configuration.
The earlier aircraft did not have a first class
After two years of growth in the 4 per cent to 5 per cent range, the gross domestic product is expected to increase more robustly in 2015, growing to an expected 6.4 per cent.
The pilot and co-pilot of an Air India plane involved in Wednesday night's freak accident at the Mumbai airport where a technician died after getting sucked into the engine have been grounded even as the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau launched a probe.
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.
The final list of bidders would be finalised only after the interested firms pay the earnest money deposit on June 30.
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