An Indigo plane from Delhi with 182 people on board caught fire on Saturday while landing at Kathmandu airport but all passengers and crew escaped unhurt after they were safely evacuated.
Its revenue during the period grew by 65 per cent to touch Rs 9,458 crore (Rs 94.58 billion), as against Rs 5,718 crore (Rs 57.18 billion) during FY12.
Because of strong headwinds on Delhi-Istanbul route for the last two days, the low-cost carrier has been unable to take most of the check-in luggage in the same aircraft along with passengers, said an airline spokesperson.
Vistara started allowing passengers to book an extra seat from Tuesday. IndiGo and SpiceJet, too, are in the final stages of designing such a product to be sold as an add-on.
IndiGo's ascent is not without its risks, however.
The civil aviation ministry has increased the seat capacity between India and Abu Dhabi from 13,000 seats/week to over 50,000 seats/week
The Congress on Thursday claimed its leader Pawan Khera was deplaned from a flight to Raipur, where he was going to attend the party's plenary session.
The civil aviation ministry is to issue new route dispersal guidelines this month.
IndiGo clearly needs to refresh its HR and training manual, says Shyamal Majumdar.
India remained the world's fastest growing domestic aviation market with 51 straight months of doubled-digit traffic growth but the woes of passengers as well as carriers manifested in myriad forms.
Police in Maharashtra's Nagpur have identified a 35-year-old man from Gondia in the state as the person behind a spate of hoax bomb threats that triggered panic, caused flight delays and led to increased security at airports and other establishments, an official said.
IndiGo, the country's latest low-fare domestic airline, is planning to fly to 30 cities across the country with a fleet of 40 A-320s by 2010.
Air India, IndiGo, and SpiceJet have suspended flights to China and Hong Kong.
While most of these commanders quit the airline for better prospects, some of them also parted ways due to the work culture
IndiGo declined to comment on the matter
The DGCA cracked the whip after an IndiGo flight bound for Lucknow returned to Ahmedabad within 40 minutes of its getting airborne due to a mid-air engine failure.
With the Middle East tensions flaring up, Air India has temporarily suspended its Tel Aviv flights and airlines have charted alternative flight paths to avoid the Iranian airspace.
The airline has also inked a deal to take 12 A320s from Singapore's Tiger Airways on lease.
IndiGo confirmed the incident but said the aircraft did not face any technical issue in the past.
IndiGo is arguably more a financial services company than airline.
The budget carrier would now be operating 399 flights per day.
The sessions court in Mumbai on Wednesday granted bail to Indigo Airlines co-pilot Arjun Menon, accused of abetting the suicide of airhostess Sucheta Anand
According to the latest figures released by the DGCA, IndiGo, with 27 per cent market share in July this year, has edged past Jet, which managed 26.6 per cent share.
The other three airlines that have been probed in this matter are SpiceJet, GoAir and Air India
The airline is currently operating on the Delhi-Dubai, Mumbai-Dubai, Delhi-Singapore and Mumbai-Muscat routes.
The genesis of the arbitration lies in a bitter public battle that began in July when Rakesh Gangwal wrote to capital market regulator Sebi alleging lack of corporate governance in the company. He alleged that Rahul Bhatia, who holds controlling power of the company, had used it to execute questionable related-party transactions.
Just after the boarding completed, a passenger suddenly opened the emergency exit door and inflated the slide, the airline said.
The bookings of tickets under the four-day "festive sale" offer have begun from Monday for the travel period from September 18, 2018 to March 30, 2019, IndiGo said.
As per the current policy, 100 per cent foreign investment is allowed in scheduled air transport service, domestic scheduled passenger airlines and regional air transport
Another nine Indigo flights came under the scanner after warnings that they have bombs on board.
The airline has already set up a team of senior executives to work on the fake licensing issue and 'we are reviewing all our internal records and providing them to the DGCA to help them with their investigation', the sources said.
Cracks started appearing on Saturday in a grouping of airlines that was planning to suspend flights on August 18 to protest high jet fuel prices and taxes, with budget carrier IndiGo saying it would operate as usual.
IndiGo, which has grown rapidly to become India's biggest airline by market share, has now ordered 530 A320 family planes from Airbus, the planemaker said in a statement.
IndiGo, Vistara, Air India, SpiceJet have cancelled their flights, while GoAir and AirAsia India announced waiving date change/ cancellation fee.
The new visa-free regime allows travellers to stay for up to 60 days instead of only 15 earlier.
Top no-frills carrier IndiGo on Tuesday approached capital markets regulator Sebi with Initial Public Offer.
A chartered accountant was on Tuesday sentenced to life imprisonment by a court in New Delhi for triggering a mid-air hijack scare in February 2009 by claiming aboard a Goa-Delhi Indigo airlines flight that he had infected needles and a gun.
For any airline to be eligible for restructuring, the current ratio has to be equal to or higher than 0.4, while 'debt to Ebitda' has to be equal to or less than 5.5.
The market valuation of InterGlobe Aviation, the parent of IndiGo, reached Rs 1 lakh crore mark on Wednesday and became the first airline to achieve this milestone. On Wednesday, the stock rallied 3.55 per cent to settle at Rs 2,619.85 apiece on the BSE. In intra-day trade, shares of the company jumped 4.12 per cent to hit its 52-week high of Rs 2,634.25.
In 2011, the Gurgaon-based airline placed an order of 180 narrow-body Airbus aircraft, including 150 fuel efficient A320neo and 30 A320s.
