AirAsia's rival airlines in India have kept themselves super-busy in the past few months -- by moving court against the former's launch, adding flights on the routes where AirAsia is operating, and engaging in a price war.
Eyeing potential business opportunity, Boeing Corporation is planning to approach the proposed Tata-Singapore Airlines.
The six-day-a-week flight will be operated by a 48-seat capacity business jet and cover the distance of 6,673 km. A-319 Airbus will be used to operate the flight. Timings: Departure from Pune at 5.29 am and arrival at Frankfurt at 10.50 am. Departure from Frankfurt at 4.15 pm and arrival at Pune at 4 am next day.
Paramount Airways, the Coimbatore-based private airline, is in an advanced stages of negotiations with aircraft manufacturers Airbus and Boeing for a $1 billion order of 15 wide-bodied aircraft. The deal is likely to be announced shortly.
Air Deccan has opened bookings across all Airbus flights for travel between September 1 and October 29, 2006.
GoAir announced discounts on fares, starting from December 21.
Budget airlines are now set to explore the non-metro markets. With high growth prospects there, the carriers are pumping in funds and offering attractive packages to lure customers.
Paving the way for launch of its flights, Tata-Singapore Airlines joint venture airline Vistara was on Monday granted flying permit by aviation regulator DGCA, almost nine months after it applied for the licence.
Delhi and Mumbai may have made hasty temporary arrangements for the mammoth two-decker Airbus A380s to land exhibition flights earlier this year. But it is Hyderabad that will have south Asia's first A380-compatible airport, which begins commercial operations on March 16, 2008.
Airline pares capacity on routes like Mumbai-Delhi and Mumbai-Bengaluru on weekends, uses freed up slot at Mumbai to fly Amritsar, Patna, Varanasi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday night arrived in Paris on the first leg of his three-nation tour during which he will hold talks with French President Francois Hollande and meet business leaders.
He said the ministry was considering bidding out the airstrips in blocks for development as it might not be feasible to do it individually.
The pilot of Air India's flight 348 detected the technical glitch and landed the Airbus 310 safely at around midnight as emergency personnel were kept on standby, airport officials said.
The low fares will come with a discernible sea-change in service quality and minus the luxury which comes as an essential part of any long-haul travel
The co-pilot believed to have deliberately crashed a Germanwings plane into the French Alps was classified as suicidal "several years ago" but had appeared more stable of late, German prosecutors said.
With losses piling up, India's commercial aviation industry is set for a major consolidation that could cut out quite a few players
Mukesh Ambani, the country's richest man and chairman of Reliance Industries, is understood to have gifted his wife, Nita, a unique, customised, plush corporate jet, on her birthday which was on November 1.
Come June, Air India will mark its re-entry into international air cargo operations.
An Air India aircraft, with 168 people on board, suffered a tyre burst on landing at the airport in Jaipur on Sunday night after being diverted from Delhi due to bad weather.
According to Airbus sources close to the development, "Airbus has already made its presentation to Air India and also to the ministry. Whenever they are ready and instruct us to put in the bid, we will do so." The order could be around $3 billion, based on the list price of the aircraft. But, the negotiated price may vary.
Cut-throat competition in the India-UK route has taken its toll on the UK's second largest full service scheduled airline bmi (British Midland).
The Ambani brothers, Tata group, GVK Group, GMR Group and Larsen & Toubro are among the top players bidding for the greenfield Navi Mumbai airport, the second airport project in Mumbai.
Till high school, his medium of learning was Marathi. Later, he completed his doctorate under Neil Armstrong's guidance. He has travelled to close to 50 countries, sold $350 billion worth of aircraft. Anjuli Bhargava meets Boeing SVP Dinesh Keskar.
Thanks to the leapfrogging Indian economy, the country will need 125 freighter aircraft in next 20 years. At present, India has only seven bigger freighters, owned by Blue Dart Express.
All passengers are safe and they de-boarded the plane after being in the aircraft for about an hour.
National carrier Air India will have two maintenance, repair and overhaul facilities for its aircraft, one in Nagpur and the other in Delhi.
The John F Kennedy Airport will receive the plane from Frankfurt, Germany, with Lufthansa's frequent flyers, reporters and news crews on board in the test flight to the United States before it starts commercial operations.
Starting September 23, the Doha-based carrier will launch twice-weekly flights to Nagpur and on December 12, it will start daily operations between Doha and Ahmedabad, a statement by the airline said.
Tam Arlines, Brazil's largest, said Airbus 320 was carrying 170 passengers and a crew of six when it crashed into the airline's own offices across the airport, located within Sao Paulo city limits.
Budget carrier Air Deccan, which has the largest network in India covering 60 airports and operating more than 300 flights a day, may hive off its highly profitable ATR Turboprop aircraft operations into a separate company.
IndiGo is arguably more a financial services company than airline.
Liquor baron Vijay Mallya, who acquired 26 per cent stake in the country's largest budget carrier, Air Deccan, for Rs 550 crore (Rs 5.5 billion) on May 31, is still in high spirits.
It would offer 15% discount to its premium economy class passengers bound for the US from India.
Kingfisher was the first Indian airline to place orders for five A-380 in June 2005 with Airbus.
Germany's foreign intelligence agency helped the Central Investigation Agency track down Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, before the Al Qaeda leader was killed by United States special forces in May 2011, according to a media report today.
The world's largest airplane, the A380 is coming to Delhi and Mumbai airports on May 7 and May 9.
Airplane engine major Pratt & Whitney is planning to set up an aircraft engine workshop in India
A notification from the ministry has raised the minimum equity capital requirement for a five-fleet carrier that wants to fly Airbuses and Boeings (or aircraft above 40,000 kg weight) from Rs 30 crore to Rs 50 crore.
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