Reduction in fuel price was supposed to bring back good luck for Indian airlines. But with the global spread of coronavirus, airlines are being forced to rejig their network, cut flights, and delay launches.
According to Air India, the number of flights per week would be increased on routes such as Delhi-Bengaluru-Delhi, Delhi-Amritsar-Delhi, Chennai-Ahmedabad-Chennai and Chennai-Kolkata-Chennai.
Ajit Singh represented a bridge between a constituency that represented a more traditional era in politics and a modern, forward-looking, India, remembers Aditi Phadnis.
US aircraft manufacturer Boeing said on Tuesday the company will deliver more wide-bodied 777 aircraft to India in 2009 than in the current year, besides the 787 Dreamliner.
Currently, Air India operates 21 flights per week to London -- seven on the Mumbai-London sector, and 14 on the Delhi-London sector -- the airline said in a statement.
The flight will operate every Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday. While the inaugural flight AI 139 left at 6 pm (Indian time) on Thursday, the scheduled departure will be 4.50 pm (Indian time) from March 25 when the summer schedule comes into operation.
Fifteen of these pilots are expatriates who were hired for flying the Boeing 787 Dreamliners till Air India's crew got trained.
Cumulative losses after Dreamliner launch stand at Rs 80 crore.
Etihad said it declined to lodge an EoI to reinvest in Jet Airways because of unresolved issues concerning the airline's liabilities.
Thirty years ago, he'd introduced himself as Capt Rohan Bhasin to his playschool teacher.
Air India's decision to buy five Boeing 787-9 is illogical.
Currently, Vistara has more than 22 planes and operates around 850 flights every week.
The Tata group may have to deploy upwards of $1 billion to improve the airline's passenger reservation system, upgrade and refurbish Air India's fleet, primarily the wide-body aircraft which are the mainstay for the airline's international operations, people in the know said. While the group has not yet decided on how it intends to integrate Air India with its existing airlines AirAsia India and Vistara, sources said the first task will be to refinance Air India's existing loans, upgrade its aircraft gradually, and rewrite multiple business contracts with vendors and suppliers. "They will have to do 100 things to stabilise the airline and will have to put in a lot of money," DIPAM secretary Tuhin Kanta Pandey said, confirming that many aircraft are grounded.
Recently, there have been technical mishaps, including an electrical fire and a brake problem, involving the aircraft.
Etihad is the fourth airline to operate the super jumbo aircraft to India.
According to the Seattle-based Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace, its 'professional' members -- who perform the main engineering duties on Boeing planes -- voted narrowly in favor of accepting the contract, while a smaller group of "technical" members -- who support the engineers -- voted to reject it. Both groups voted in favor of authorizing the union to call a strike.
Boeing sticks with lithium-ion battery despite issues.
The 2019 Paris Air Show will run until Sunday at Le Bourget Airport.
BA parent could order around 20 Airbus A350-1000s.
Aviation major Boeing has received federal approval to its plan to test the battery system of its 'Dreamliner' planes, which were grounded early this year after a fire in one of the aircraft due to fault in the battery system.
The last date to submit bids is March 17 but the deadline could be extended if there are requests from potential bidders.
Air India has grounded six of these planes in its fleet.
Incidents stark reminders of problems that have hit Dreamliner since July, prompting federal regulators to call for engine and fuel line inspections
A meeting of the CCEA is likely to be held next week.
The entire issue of compensation, including the amount to be claimed and how, has been forwarded to the government for approval, sources said, adding that matter came up for a thorough discussion at the meeting of the Board, sources said.
To sell five Boeing 777s, replacing these with cheaper aircraft
Former India footballer Gouramangi Singh's wife, Pushpanjali has been airlifting Indians stranded in different parts of the world and bringing them back home amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
The ongoing Air India crisis deepens further as it enters the fourth day on Friday and there seems to be no respite as the situation is turning from bad to worse.
The Boeing website lists the price of a Boeing 737-800 aircraft at $90.5 million.
The CCEA approved the TAP and the airline's financial restructuring plan, which includes additional equity infusion by the government.
Says pilots ready to resume work but civil aviation minister unwilling to reinstate sacked employees
Four Air India international flights were cancelled from Delhi and Mumbai today after about 100 pilots refused to join work.
The airline is also expecting to close the bridge loan of $195 million from the domestic arm of the British lender shortly.
While Bhasin will be getting provident fund money and gratuity, he would not be getting leave encashment for 420 days, medical reimbursement for himself and wife, free passes for himself and wife, and holiday home facilities.
The development comes four days ahead of the launch of a training programme for pilots to fly the Boeing 787 Dreamliners.
Air India will train its pilots in Singapore for the Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft, due for delivery from December. The move is sparking a protest from one of its pilots' unions, on promotion issues.
By 2023, Vistara's hangars will house a total of 70 aircraft, up from the current 42.
No move yet on delivery of 787s slated for mid-January.
Price appreciation since the aircraft order in 2005 could yield Rs 7,200-crore gain.
