The airline will utilise new Airbus A320s, scheduled for delivery this year, to accommodate much of the increased frequencies.
Interestingly, the full service carrier's launch coincides with the concluding day of the the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas celebrations scheduled to be held in Gujarat's capital city Gandhinagar, near Ahmedabad, from January 7 to January 9.
Airline wants to fly to West Asia, Southeast Asia.
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.
The 517-seater superjumbo Emirates EK516 landed around 1500 hrs at IGIA.
While IndiGo had 11.8 per cent of all the international seats to and fro India in the last week of August, Air India's seat share was 11.4 per cent. Emirates came third with 8.1 per cent, and rest of the airlines constituted 68 per cent of the seat share.
The carrier is loaded by debt of as much as Rs 7,000 crore.
Air India engineers, who were flown to Nawabshah airport in Pakistan to attend to an Airbus A-319 that had landed under emergency conditions today, have found that the cockpit panel had emitted a "false alarm" about a technical problem.
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.
Beleaguered Kingfisher Airlines on Wednesday announced further reduction in its flight schedule and said its promoter Vijay Mallya will meet the pilots agitating over delayed salary on Thursday.
Case in the US relates to an Airbus Corporate Jet
US-based firm is making a supersonic aircraft that is more efficient and practical than Concorde.
Amid continuing uncertainty over the fate of the national carrier, an official said there is also need for funds to restart operations of 12 grounded narrow-body planes.
The plane was suffering a technical glitch
The plan is to charge 30 per cent less. Travel sector executives say if IndiGo is able to do so, it could create a new class of flyers.
At least 15 variations were being evaluated regarding the '5/20 rule'.
The travel period for which the discount is being offered ends on April 30 next year.
The ATR 72-600 aircraft was accorded water salute as it landed at the Jaffna airport, about 400-km from capital Colombo.
The DGCA probe detected serious issues related to safety oversight.
'Biden's promise of returning to 'normalcy' after Trump appears to mean that the same old politicians, who are responsible for the 'endless wars' in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria, are being brought out of the woodwork after four years,' notes Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
Trials in support of the Indian Air Force's procurement of six multi-role tanker transports for around $2 billion (around Rs 10,000 crore) involving Europe's EADS and Russia's Rosonboronexport have been completed recently and the rival commercial bids are expected to be opened early in the new year.
IndiGo was set up in 2006 by businessman Rahul Bhatia and Rakesh Gangwal, a former CEO for US Airways Group.
Nine months after Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared shortly after takeoff from Kuala Lumpur, Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501, an Airbus A320 airliner carrying 162 people, disappeared from radar screens early Sunday, about 40 minutes after leaving the Indonesian city of Surabaya en route to Singapore. Till Monday, there were no signs of the missing plane. The story of AirAsia flight QZ8501 sounds remarkably similar to that of Malaysia Airlines MH370, which remains missing nearly 10 months after it disappeared from radar screens on a flight between Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and Beijing.
Flight PK8303 crashed among houses in the Model Colony residential area on Friday as it approached Karachi airport, killing 97 people, including nine children.
AirAsia's India plans may not be hit with the current crisis that the airline is going through
GoAir Managing Director Jeh Wadia is ecstatic. Eight months after ordering 72 Airbus A320 Neos worth over $7 billion (Rs 32,400 crore), he has signed an all-important engine deal for these planes.
Kingfisher Airlines, struggling to stay afloat, may spin off its ATR fleet and loyalty programme (frequent flier programme) into separate units.
The travel period for tickets availed under this offer stands between January 15 and April 12
Based on the Skytrax ranking for 2018, IndiGo is number two among the best low-cost carriers in Asia, behind rival AirAsia.
Under the deal announced on Wednesday, American Airlines will acquire a total of 200 aircraft from the Boeing 737 family, with options for another 100 aircraft.
With the objective of making the country a manufacturing hub for domestic and foreign companies, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is launching the NDA government's "Make in India" campaign today.
The 25-seater aircraft is interspersed with plush sofas, a cushioned bed, bars, showers and a bathrobe
The airline will be inducting large number of A321s this year which will be largely used on international routes and high density domestic routes.
Soon after AI-888 took off from Mumbai at 7:00 pm, the Air India call centre there received a phone call from an anonymous person saying the aircraft was carrying a baggage, which had a bomb.
Approval was held up due to CBI investigation into international flying permit of Tata group-owned AirAsia India.
'Since the government will not hold any significant stake in the airline this time, such restrictions are not required anymore.'
Discussions have been initiated to sell the company to a Mumbai-headquartered, highly diversified, multi-billion dollar corporate group which has interests in retail and logistics, among various others.
The first officer, not the captain, was flying AirAsia Flight 8501 when it crashed.
Currently airline flies thrice daily flight between Delhi-Mumbai
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