In a midair scare, a Guwahati-bound Jet Airways aircraft from Delhi with about 130 passengers and crew on board was on Thursday caught in severe turbulence, which the airline claimed was caused by a passing Boeing 747 jumbo.
The order, valued at 'nearly $9 billion at list prices', was signed at Dubai Air Show 2021 on Tuesday.
The delivery of nine Boeing 737-800s were scheduled between 2010 and 2012. These would now come in between 2012 and 2015.
The expatriates get between $15,000 to 18,000 salary per month besides perquisites such as five-star hotel accommodation and business class conveyance to their home country. Earlier, around Diwali, Jet had sacked about 1,000 temporaray staff but later rescinded its move by taking back all the employees.
Jet Airways on Monday awarded $750-million contract to a leading Singaporean firm for maintenance support to engines of its 67-strong Boeing-737 fleet over the next 10 years.
Jet Airways has introduced 11 Boeing 737 daily flights between Delhi and Mumbai to meet the summer rush.
Over 30 passengers have suffered ear and nose-bleed after the crew on Jet Airways flight 9W 697 reportedly forgot to select a switch that helps maintain cabin air pressure
Indian airports' push to become global hubs will depend on reducing passenger leakage to rival airports abroad, scaling up direct long-haul connectivity, and offering transfer experiences that are faster, smoother, and more attractive than those of regional competitors, said panellists at the Business Standard Infrastructure Summit on Thursday.
The combine has a fleet of 189 aircraft which includes A-320s, A-330s, Boeing-737s, Boeing-747s and turbo props. Industry experts said this would mean the withdrawal of around 75 flights a day, or around 8 per cent of the combine's daily domestic flights.
The airline will utilise new Airbus A320s, scheduled for delivery this year, to accommodate much of the increased frequencies.
Jet also recently announced plans to launch direct flights to Brussels this summer, launching itself as a direct rival to Air India on flights between India and Europe.
Jet Airways, India's largest privately-owned airline, has approached the US Exim Bank and European export credit agencies to reschedule a $2 billion loan (Rs 10,000-crore) loan that was raised to buy 27 Boeing and eight Airbus aircraft.
For the first time in 13 years, since Jet Airways' A330 planes exited the airline's fleet in around 2010, an Indian wide-body aircraft will have a Rolls-Royce-powered engine, with Air India ordering 40 Airbus A350 planes. On Tuesday, Air India announced its mega aircraft order for 470 aircraft, including A350 planes. The A350 aircraft, which will come in two variants, are powered solely by Rolls-Royce Trent XWB engines and the local team has begun work to assist Air India with its aircraft-induction plans.
Improvement in load factors, coupled with an increase in seat capacity after Jet's slots were allotted to low-cost airlines, has resulted in an increase in daily passenger traffic.
Jet Airways is talking to several leading private equity firms to raise $400 million through qualified institutional placements for its aircraft acquisition plan.
A Jet Airways flight from London to Mumbai sparked panic after the aircraft remained out of contact for almost 30 minutes while it was flying over German airspace, barely five days after the mysterious disappearance of a Malaysian Airlines flight last month.
At the recently concluded Dubai airshow, Akasa, Rakesh Radheyshyam Jhunjhunwala's new airline, signed a $9 billion deal with American aircraft maker Boeing to buy its 737 MAX planes and a $4 billion one for engines with CFM, a joint venture between GE of the US and Safran of France. Unlike his financial doppelganger Warren Buffett, who divested billions from his airline stock portfolio at the start of the pandemic, Jhunjhunwala is wagering his billions in a brand new airline. The legendary investor bought a roughly 40 per cent stake in SNV Aviation in September, Akasa's holding company, started in March by three former Jet Airways colleagues. With aviation still to recover from its pandemic slump, the big question around his foray into domestic aviation, due to take off in summer 2022, is whether it is another pie in the sky.
Lufthansa Technik, a leading aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaul major, is also planning to set up a regional component pool in India to support the existing customers.
The airline has already decided to lease out an A330 to Etihad and plans to lease out two more this year.
The proposed flight will operate six times a week with a Boeing 737-800 aircraft having 170 Economy seats, the airline said in statement.
A Jet Airways flight, traveling from Kuwait to Mumbai and carrying 160 people, made an emergency landing at Muscat airport on Friday after a bomb scare on board that turned out to be a hoax. Omani authorities received a tip off that a bomb might be aboard the Boeing 737-800 aircraft, following which they alerted the crew. The crew then decided to divert to Muscat where the airplane landed safely at 1 am local time, about two-and-a-half hours after departure from Kuwait.
The airline will launch services from Sharjah aboard state-of-the-art Boeing 737-800 aircraft. As a result, from September 1, 2009 to October 24, 2009 and from March 28, 2010 to October 30, 2010, flight 9W 562 will depart from Kochi at 1045 hrs, arriving in Sharjah at 1305 hrs. Flight 9W 561 will then depart Sharjah at 1415 hrs, arriving in Kochi at 1945 hrs. But the departure and arrival timings of the flights are however, subject to the governments approval.
The agreement between the two airlines came on the second day of the four-day state visit of Mukherjee to the country.
The airline also plans to introduce a third daily direct flight from Mumbai to Bangkok during the winter schedule.
The Naresh Goyal-promoted airline, which is beginning flights to London from May 23, will launch its flights to Newark via Brussels a month later, chief executive officer Wolfgang Prock-Schauer told reporters in Mumbai.
Jet Airways on Wednesday said it would offer about 31,000 seats daily by operating 255 flights to 40 destinations in its new winter schedule with immediate effect.
Tata group-owned Air India plans to hire expat pilots for its Boeing 777 planes as the airline is facing a shortage of pilots amid plans to expand its fleet as well as international operations, according to sources. The carrier is looking to rope in around 100 pilots for the wide-body Boeing 777 fleet and has approached various agencies that provide expat flight crew to airlines, the sources told PTI. The loss-making Air India, which was under government ownership for nearly seven decades till the Tata group took over in January 2022, had stopped hiring expat pilots many years ago to save costs.
About 350 Boeing 737 Max 8 are currently in service with airlines around the world, with thousands more on order. Boeing insists it has no reason to pull the popular aircraft from the skies.
But the Abu Dhabi-based airline would first bolster its own network with traffic from India before Jet's turnaround.
Till high school, his medium of learning was Marathi. Later, he completed his doctorate under Neil Armstrong's guidance. He has travelled to close to 50 countries, sold $350 billion worth of aircraft. Anjuli Bhargava meets Boeing SVP Dinesh Keskar.
About 350 Boeing 737 Max 8 are currently in service with airlines around the world, with thousands more on order. Boeing insists it has no reason to pull the popular aircraft from the skies.
The trails of mega-mergers, tailwinds of expanding fleets, flights and airports will dot the fast-growing Indian aviation firmament in 2025, though the dark clouds of supply chain woes will persist longer. Also, new airline takeoffs, the future trajectory of revised norms to tackle pilot fatigue and efforts to reduce carbon emissions will be on the radar.
Together with Jet Airways we will have 61 flights to Amsterdam and Paris during the winter season. That also makes us the second largest airline group after Lufthansa, which has 67 weekly flights, and we are catching up to become the first, says KLM CEO Pieter Elbers.
The fairy tale turnaround story has, however, taken a few knocks after a second wave of the pandemic has brought a series of default notices and has posed the toughest test for the 55-year old Singh to save the airline he founded and sold to the Marans only to assume control later.
With oil prices in a free fall, the airline is looking at regaining some of its lost share.
The airline informed the ministry that it would operate 75 planes by April-end.
In the past, Qatar Airways has repeatedly expressed a desire to invest in IndiGo, the country's largest domestic airline.
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