In a security scare, a dummy stun-grenade was on Saturday found on board an Air India jumbo plane as it landed at Jeddah in the wee hours, which the airline attempted to downplay but was rebuffed by Civil Aviation Minister Ashok Gajapathi Raju who called it a "failure".
Reddy, who represents Andhra Pradesh's Anantapur seat in the Lok Sabha, reported late for the flight and therefore, was not allowed to board it, a source said.
Proceeds may be used to partly pay off its Rs 46,570-cr debt
Air India's decision to buy five Boeing 787-9 is illogical.
The Rashtrapati Bhavan has come out with a communiqu announcing distribution of portfolios of the ministers sworn-in on Monday in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's council of ministers:
Members from parties, including National Democratic Alliance partner Telugu Desam Party, All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam and Trinamool Congress, continued their protests on various issues.
Concerned over the deteriorating condition of SpiceJet, aviation regulator DGCA on Friday withdrew 186 of its slots and asked it to clear salary dues of all its employees in the next ten days.
A bill to award death penalty to hijackers and give the right to security forces to shoot down an aircraft which may be used as a missile is likely to be brought in Parliament in the next session.
Drones or unmanned aircraft are being used for several purposes such as mapping, survey and commercial photography, while e-commerce giant Amazon is looking to use them for deliveries to its consumers in the US.
Asserting that it was a small conflict, Gaikwad said the staff member of the airline is mad and around eight such cases of indulging in a brawl have been registered against him.
The airline management has now sought a meeting with civil aviation minister Ashok Gajapathi Raju to present the airline's plan.
The April 11 polling will decide the fate of several political bigwigs.
The suspense over the possible composition of the National Democratic Alliance cabinet is nearly over.
As soon as the Zero Hour commenced at noon, AIADMK and TDP members trooped in the Well, raising slogans and carrying banners demanding stalling of a dam on river Cauvery and special state status to Andhra Pradesh respectively.
Airfares are at an all-time low because of fall in crude oil prices.
Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu chided the members for their 'unbecoming' behaviour and asked them to resume their places.
Air India has been in the red since the merger of then Air India and Indian Airlines in 2007.
Ministry sources say investors are looking at pumping in around Rs 1,100 crore
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With Civil Aviation Minister Ashok Gajapathi Raju favouring such checks, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation has prepared a monthly programme of surveillance of airports as well as of all schedule, non-schedule and general aviation companies, foreign airlines and the aviation wings of state governments, they said.
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.
In an unusual advice to Bharatiya Janata Party Members of Parliament, Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked his party MPs not to show him respect by touching his feet or greeting other senior leaders by touching their feet.
Regional connectivity will bring development to tier-2 and tier-3 cities which are becoming "growth engines", Prime Minister Narendra Modi said while inaugurating the first flight under UDAN.
TMC asks why the flight was made to hover in the sky despite reporting a fuel shortage.
A 61-year-old cardiac patient Virender Rai, who was being flown to Delhi, has been rushed to the Medanta hospital in Gurgaon immediately after the incident.
J&K Deputy Chief Minister Nirmal Singh on Thursday said that people are making a 'mountain out of a molehill' over the delay of the Air India flight.
There could be rejig at top level at SpiceJet.
Pusapati was given detailed presentations on various aspects of the sector by senior officials of the Ministry.
Indigo, Air India, Spicejet, GoAir, Jet Airways and Vistara put Diwakar Reddy under no fly list.
The government also said it will hold consultations with the airlines to explore the possibility of curbing the menace of charging exorbitant airfares during emergency situations.
Carriers' input costs are rising due to weak rupee and rising crude oil price.
'Every Finance Commission creates its winners and losers' point out T N Ninan.
AI also working on proposal to trim pilots' pay 15-20%
Narendra Modi's ministry expansion makes disdain clear for others who are supposedly allies, quite unlike the Vajpayee-led National Democratic Alliance.
The ministers quit their posts in protest against central govt to grant special category status to Andhra Pradesh.
The flying licence of the two pilots was suspended and a probe launched into the accident.
UDAN scheme takes off; fares capped at Rs 2,500 for 1-hr flight
A note about hijackers and a bomb found in the toilet of a Mumbai-Delhi Jet Airways flight.
Full list of the rejigged Union Council of Ministers
Details were not immediately available ahead of a planned government briefing.
AAI has 51% stake in the project while Punjab and Haryana have 24.5% equity each.
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