Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a Nigerian who allegedly tried to blow up a US plane, had "sneaked" into Nigeria on December 24, a day ahead of the failed terror bid, country's information minister has said. "The man in question had lived outside the country for a while. He sneaked into Nigeria on December 24, 2009 and left the same day," Dora Akunyili, Nigerian information minister said.
GoAir hopes to fly 15 million passengers by 2016-17, serve 30 destinations, up from 21 now, and will largely remain a domestic airline.
Pointing out at the 'cooperation' and 'trust' shared between both India and France, Ambassador of France to India Alexandre Ziegler asked people to look at the facts.
After discontinuing its service from Mumbai to Helsinki last April, Nordic air-carrier Finnair has decided to restart the flights from October 17 with a brand new Airbus 330.Finnair, which will provide one of the shortest services to Europe will take just eight hours to complete one-way-trip between its destinations and will operate three times a week from Mumbai.
Two civilian planes with 200 passengers on board landed safely in emergency conditions at the airports in Mumbai and Delhi on Tuesday evening after the pilots reported some technical problems in the aircraft.
According to sources, Vistara was looking at commencing operations on Oct 15 to commemorate J R D Tata's flight from Karachi to Mumbai on the same date in 1932.
Grounded Indian planes will be up in air by end of April says company president
AirAsia is facing a legal challenge from Bharatiya Janata Party MP Subramanian Swamy, whose petition comes up for hearing at the Delhi HIgh Court on Wednesday.
Flight PK8303 crashed among houses in the Model Colony residential area on Friday as it approached Karachi airport, killing 97 people, including nine children.
As a part of its route rationalization and cost-cutting measures, Air India plans to replace its twin-class aircraft with all-economy ones belonging to low-cost subsidiary Air India Express on few Gulf routes from this month end.
The first Indian civil aviation minister to fly for a commercial airline -- Rajiv Gandhi has been the only prime minister to do so -- Rudy started his job with IndiGo from January 4.
Former Civil Aviation Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national spokesman Rajiv Pratap Rudy has been hired as a co-pilot with Delhi-based private airline IndiGo Airlines on an honorary basis.
Mumbai-London is the private carrier's second overseas flight after the one on Bangalore-London route that was launched in September. Kingfisher also plans to launch Mumbai-Hong Kong operations from January 12 and Mumbai-Singapore flight from January 16.
The vessel 'La Place', which is belonging to the French Naval forces and is participating in the search for the plane that crashed last month, has picked up signals coming from deep in the sea and believed to be from one of the black boxes of the plane, which crashed into the Mediterranean, a statement from the committee investigating the crash said.
Air India has derostered nine employees, including two pilots, for taking on board three passengers in excess of the aircraft capacity on its flight from Mumbai to Mangalore two months ago.
In a clear violation of safety norms Air India allowed three extras passengers on board a fully loaded flight.
The remains of all those killed when a Germanwings jetliner slammed into the French Alps have now been identified.
A Yemeni jet with over 150 people on board crashed in the Indian Ocean, off the island nation of Comoros, officials said on Tuesday.Yemenia Flight 626 was on its way to Moroni, the capital of Comoros, from Yemen's capital Sanaa. According to officials from the national airline Yemenia, the plane crashed approximately an hour before reaching its destination. There was no news about the fate of the 154 people on board.
The country holds one of the biggest opportunities for Uber as more Indians start using smartphones
'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.
Kiran Rao, company's executive vice-president for sales, marketing and customer affairs, also said that government-owned Air India and private carriers Jet Airways and Kingfisher Airlines will create a niche in the global market due to their quality service in the next few years despite stiff international competition.
'Now we will have real employees as the owner of the airline.'
The aircraft was earlier owned by EIH (Oberoi group).
India's newest airline-Vistara is bullish on growth prospects.
The company plans to offer end-to-end logistics solutions where it has custodial charge of the cargo. Till the back-end warehouse infrastructure is ready at the airline's national hub in Nagpur, Gopinath's freighters will fly the Dubai-Mumbai-Delhi-Hong Kong route, offering dedicated cargo space to freight forwarders and serve anyone who wants to move international freight to these cities for time-definite delivery.
On Wednesday, Air India had carried out a test flight landing at the naval base.
Air India has announced that it will be adding to the seamless transfer facility to passengers from Bangalore travelling to international destinations like New York, Newark, London, Frankfurt and Chicago by introduction of a new hub and spoke flight between Bangalore and Mumbai from October 26.
A potential mid-air disaster was averted on Tuesday when an Air India Airbus, on a flight from Dibrugarh to Kolkata with 43 passengers on board, and an Indian Air Force plane came dangerously close to each other over Jorhat airspace, a day after a civilian plane narrowly missed colliding with the President's helicopter in Mumbai. The Air India flight -- IC-206 -- came dangerously close to an IAF plane when it was traveling from Dibrugarh to Kolkata at around 1.30 pm.
The airline would be accepting the bids till November 19.
Jet Airways, India's largest privately-owned airline, has approached the US Exim Bank and European export credit agencies to reschedule a $2 billion loan (Rs 10,000-crore) loan that was raised to buy 27 Boeing and eight Airbus aircraft.
This year the Pitru Paksha fortnight runs from September 9-24 and will end with the start of Navratri.
Air India's former executive director Jitender Bhargava feels the airline should oppose the Tata-Singapore Airline plan to set up a hub in Delhi.
This is the third time this month that the national carrier has invited bids for leasing out aircraft.
Tata-SIA joint venture carrier Vistara on Friday announced scaling up of operations and said it plans to operate 164 flights per week.
154 people on board an IndiGo aircraft had a narrow escape on Wednesday following a problem in its landing gear that caused thick smoke to emanate after touching down at the airport in New Delhi, leaving some passengers with minor injuries during evacuation.
Squeezing growth prospects in IT services firms and higher compensation in technology centres run by global companies are the two factors driving this trend.
A Russian civilian Airbus plane carrying 224 people, mostly tourists, crashed in Egypt's Sinai peninsula on Saturday with most of those on board feared dead as the jet's wreckage was found in a mountainous area.
The Indian Commercial Pilots Association decided not to resort to any industrial action as planned from May 10.
After being hit by a fuel price hike and capacity cut, it may be happy times again for the airline industry this festive season. While Kingfisher is looking at adding at least 15 new flights in the winter season, competitors Jet Airways, SpiceJet, IndiGo and Paramount are adding over 30 new flights together (arrivals and departures); they will do this through a combination of better utilisation of existing aircraft and inducting new fleet.
An American Airways Airbus 320 carrying 148 passengers and six crew on a domestic flight crashed into Hudson River off Westside Manhattan minutes after it took off. All aboard were rescued.
