The Airports Economic Regulatory Authority on April 25 decided to raise airport charges, including UDF, by a whopping 346 per cent for two years, with airlines protesting the move and saying they and the passengers would have to face the brunt of the massive hike.
Construction of 12 greenfield airports in different parts of the country is likely to start soon with the government granting them approval, Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel said on Tuesday.
A suspected member of the banned terror outfit Babbar Khalsa International was arrested from the Indira Gandhi International airport, police said on Wednesday.
Delhi International Airport Limited (DIAL), which operates India's largest airport, dismissed the expert committee report as "inaccurate", claiming it relied on "probabilities, hypothesis, and conjectures" rather than empirical data or complete documentation.
Flight operations at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi remained affected due to dense fog on Wednesday, disrupting the schedules of over 50 domestic and international flights. "Fog started enveloping the airport from 10 pm on Tuesday night and runway visibility dropped to 50 metres, due to which 21 domestic and international flights were diverted, while 15 others were cancelled," an airport official said.
Air operations remained disrupted for the fourth consecutive day on Saturday at New Delhi's Indira Gandhi International airport due to dense fog, with schedules of over 50 domestic and international flights badly affected.Three morning flights were cancelled, while 32 domestic and 20 international ones were delayed by over three to four hours as thick fog blanketed the airport. Fog began to descend upon the airport late on Friday night.
Dense fog disrupted flight operations at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi on Friday morning with 70 flights delayed and a dozen others cancelled.
The company said it has suspended the staffers and that it was part of the operation to unearth this crime.
A blanket of thick fog enveloped the busy Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi on Sunday with visibility dropping to near zero and leading to delays, diversions and cancellation of 80 domestic and international flights.
Returning home after winning the Commonwealth Games silver, the Indian men's hockey team received to a rousing welcome by Hockey India (HI), Indian Olympic Association (IOA), fans and friends at the Indira Gandhi International airport in New Delhi on Tuesday.
The city's 24-hour Air Quality Index, recorded at 4 pm every day, stood at 418, up from 334 the previous day, and it may trigger stringent restrictions under the third stage of the graded response action plan to mitigate hazardous conditions.
Scheduled international passenger flights have remained suspended since March 23, 2020 in the wake of the pandemic and they will now restart from Sunday.
Flight operations came to a standstill at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi on Friday due to dense fog, which reduced visibility to below 50 metres and affected the schedule of over 50 flights.
The sources said that an ATC posted at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi was subjected to the drug test.
Two international flights were called back while one which was preparing for departure from the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi was taken to an isolation bay due to a bomb scare early Saturday, sources said.
Mattoo had on Tuesday said she was stopped at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi from flying to the US to receive the prestigious award.
Other foreign airlines like Lufthansa, Singapore Airlines and Virgin Altantic have joined Indian carriers in opposing the hike in airport charges.
After a day's respite, fog disrupted operations at New Delhi's Indira Gandhi International airport on Tuesday morning. 15 flights, both of domestic and international carriers, were delayed and 10 others cancelled. General visibility dropped to 50 metres and runway visibility dipped to 150 metres, airport officials said.
After a day's respite, a thick blanket of fog again engulfed the Indira Gandhi International airport in New Delhi on Saturday morning causing inconvenience to passengers as 31 domestic and international flights were delayed, 19 were cancelled and three diverted to Mumbai.
According to the police, the CISF received an e-mail warning of a bomb on the flight.
'There was trust, but perhaps there was also this apprehension that given the supreme post of prime minister, Sonia Gandhi felt her authority may be a challenged.'
The Civil aviation ministry in a meeting chaired by Joint Secretary K N Srivastava, had decided on Wednesday to make the new runway (29-11) commercially operational from 6 on Thursday morning. The runway, 4,430-metres long and 75-metres wide, can handle wide-bodied aircraft like Airbus 380 or Antonov 226 and will also ensure that there is less air congestion.
It is a premium and time-saving facility for passengers travelling through T3.
AIADMK leader Edappadi K Palaniswami is under pressure from his party as his unclear stand on the BJP alliance has brought back fears among party workers that the party may lose its identity, be forced into an unwanted coalition, and be taken over by the BJP later, observes N Sathiya Moorthy.
Ajai Shukla reports from Bangalore, where Asia's biggest air show opened on Wednesday
Five months after the world's sixth-largest airport terminal (Terminal 3 or T3) at New Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport was inaugurated, it is all set to miss its deadline to host domestic carriers for the third time.
President Trump with his MAWA has unwittingly provided us this opportunity. Will PM Modi grasp this and leave a legacy of an ushered in scientific and technological revolution in India, asks Colonel Anil A Athale (retd).
India's vanquished cricketers returned home after a demoralising tour of Australia during which they were whitewashed in the Test series and proved no good in the ODI tri-series that followed.
People across north India continue to face the wrath of the dipping mercury as the cold wave further intensified in several parts.
Delhiites shivered on Monday morning as the mercury plummeted to the season's lowest even as dense fog affected air traffic.
After three days of dense fog, operations at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi remained largely normal on Wednesday. Though there was shallow fog in the morning, visibility remained above 1500 metres and flight operations remained normal with departures and arrivals as per schedule, airport sources said.
Over 100 flights were affected on Sunday due to this winter's first dense fog, which engulfed the Indira Gandhi International Airport airport in New Delhi disrupting air operation and causing inconvenience to passengers.
The airport operator has also planned rainwater harvesting structures along the proposed drainage network and open areas in the upcoming integrated third terminal.
The vigilance unit of the Delhi police arrested sub-contractor of the Airports Authority of India Satpal and his two accomplices Sudama and Salimuddin.
The visual control tower at 95 metre would provide all-round view of the airport. The complex will also have meteorological facilities, search and rescue and anti-hijacking measures.
The commercial operations of the new domestic departure terminal of Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi will commence from April 19, Delhi International Airport Limited said on Tuesday.
The Olympic silver-medallist, who out-played Japan's Nozomi Okuhara 21-7, 21-7 in a lop-sided final in Basel, Switzerland on Sunday, was mobbed at the airport after she touched down, with national coach Pullela Gopichand by her side, late on Monday.
Dense fog disrupted normal operations at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi this morning with about 17 flights being delayed and another three cancelled.
Country's financial hub Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji International and national capital's Indira Gandhi International airports have grabbed the first and second ranks in terms of late arrivals in the world's most-delayed airports list compiled by Forbes. Topping the list of the world's most-delayed airport for the second year in a row, Mumbai's international airport, saw just 49.95 per cent of on-time arrivals.
