The SOP said priority will be given to compelling cases of in distress, including migrant workers and labourers who have been laid off, short term visa holders faced with expiry of visas, persons with medical emergency/ pregnant women and elderly persons or those required to return to India due to death of family member, and students.
In a freewheeling chat with Sneha Kupekar, the Irishman says the company will lobby against any change in the departure tax and believes Emirates must be looking at its new codeshare with Kingfisher with envy.
Jet Airways launched direct flights to the Kuwait and Bahrain, thereby meeting the rising demand for connectivity with Gulf. It is the first private airline to fly to Gulf.
International no-frills budget carriers making a beeline for India.
The Civil Aviation Ministry is looking to increase air seat entitlement to Dubai by 20%.
Al Qaeda's reclusive chief Ayman al-Zawahiri, who played a central role in the 9/11 terror attacks and later created the group's regional affiliate in the Indian subcontinent, was killed in a US drone strike in Afghanistan's Kabul, in the biggest blow to the global terror network since killing of its founder Osama bin Laden in 2011 in Pakistan.
Even in ruin, Jet retained its one essential brand quality: Dignity, says brand guru Sandeep Goyal.
The airline plans to deploy A380 to Mumbai instead.
In a circular issued on Tuesday, Saudi Arabia's General Authority of Civil Aviation said it was "suspending travel to and from the following countries: (India, Brazil and Argentina) including any person who has been in any of the mentioned countries above in the last 14 days prior to their arrival to the Kingdom".
Times Square bombing suspect Faisal Shahzad's bid to flee the United States did not raise any red flag as the airline whose flight to Dubai he boarded had not refreshed its information on the Pakistani-American being tailed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
An Airbus A-380 of the Singapore Airlines (SIA) on Friday took off from Singapore for Delhi, marking the maiden flight of the superjumbo to India.
During the first phase of the Vande Bharat mission, Air India and its subsidiary Air India Express are scheduled to operate a total 64 flights between May 7 and May 14 to bring 14,800 Indians from 12 countries on a payment basis.
Air Arabia said it has been granted rights to fly daily to Mumbai from the middle of next month.
The long-range planes will be delivered from early 2014.
United Arab Emirates-based low cost airline Air Arabia will operate seven additional flights from Mumbai to Sharjah from September 7-15.
Vistara has a three-class configuration with business, premium economy and economy cabins.
Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, has launched its daily services to Mumbai and plans to start thrice-a-week flights from Abu Dhabi to Delhi from December.
Some airline companies may be struggling to keep themselves afloat, but business for the aviation training industry is brisk, barring some exceptions.
Vistara and AirAsia India have been lobbying for the relaxation of this rule.
Air India is planning to tweak its daily service to Australia, to cut losses.
Qatar Airways might infuse $200 million in debt and equity in SpiceJet.
Noting the urgency and desire on the part of India to extradite people accused of corruption, the UK on Friday said a "legal process" is on in Vijay Mallya's matter and it has to be followed through as there cannot be any shortcut. In May last year, the fugitive businessman lost his appeals in the British Supreme Court against his extradition to India to face money laundering and fraud charges. Asked when can Mallya be extradited to India and if some kind of legal issue is still pending in the matter, new British High Commissioner to India, Alex Ellis, without pointing to any particular case, said he recognises the urgency, importance and the desire to get back people who are accused of corruption to India.
Following the market buzz, the stock opened the day on a bullish note and further jumped 6.13 per cent to Rs 590 on the Bombay Stock Exchange.
Shares of Jet Airways on Monday soared by over 18 per cent to touch a one-year high level amid reports of talks between the airline and United Arab Emirates' Etihad Airways for stake sale.
The biggest challenge is not the airline's debt, but downsizing its 16,800 employees, says Surajeet Dasgupta.
Naresh Goyal only gave an undertaking not to sell any of his 51% stake in return for raising working capital debt from PNB.
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Court order follows submission of govt lawyers that Serious Fraud Investigation Office was probing a case of misappropriation of fund by Jet Airways and Goyal.
Ajit Singh says will seek cabinet nod to scrap 5-year, 20 aircraft rule.
A senior Air India pilot, who was found to be allegedly drunk by Sharjah International Airport security just prior to flying, has been let off with a warning by the United Arab Emirates authorities.
The International Cricket Council (ICC) said it was preparing to fly teams participating in the Twenty20 World Cup starting next week directly from Dubai to the West Indies.
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Following the incident, all flights at Stansted had to be temporarily grounded, according to British media reports.
The US has tightened its no-fly rules for airlines. The new rules, enforced since Wednesday by the Transportation and Security Administration, came within two days of Shahzad's attempt to flee.
Travels to Gulf accounted for 40% of India's international air traffic in 2016.
While most of these commanders quit the airline for better prospects, some of them also parted ways due to the work culture
Using flight search, travellers in the US, Canada, the UK, the Netherlands, Spain, France, Italy, Germany, Poland and Ireland will be able to explore and compare flights to and from any of Etihad Airways 103 destinations.
It's good news for those who fly frequently. They can avail of some interesting offers from their credit card companies, including co-branded airline cards, zero per cent interest on ticket repayments and even free tickets in a few cases.
A decade after the hijacking of an Indian Airlines plane, the chief Indian negotiator who engaged the hijackers blamed the then government for its 'diplomatic failure' in their inability to make the United States and the United Arab Emirates use their influence to help secure a quick release of the passengers.
Minority investors of SpiceJet might be feeling cold-shouldered.
