The state-owned airport authority is conducting a techno-feasibility study.
A city woman who was detained at the international airport in Mumbai on suspicion of being the wife of fugitive gangster Ravi Pujari has been released after it turned out to be a case of mistaken identity, the police said on Wednesday.
A major mishap was averted on Wednesday when the wingtips of two aircraft -- one of them taxiing and the other on the verge of takeoff -- touched each other at the Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport in Mumbai.
The Mumbai police have arrested a male passenger after a crew member of a Delhi-bound flight from Mumbai heard him talking about 'hijacking' on phone, an official said on Friday.
Amid growing concerns over the spurt in COVID-19 cases in China and some other countries, Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said the focus is to ensure that no unknown variant of the virus enters India and at the same time there is no impediment to travelling.
As and when Jet Airways applies for slots, these would be allocated among all airlines according to guidelines, without any claim of historicity in favour of any airline. Slots would be given to Jet only from the available remaining pool.
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Even as the cloud of uncertainty hangs over Jet Airways' Executive Director Saroj Datta's future in the airline, the company announced on Tuesday the resignation of its Senior Vice-President N Hariharan and Vice-President (flight operations) Ritzerwan Bin Rashid. Rashid's resignation came into effect on May 15 2008. Rashid has been replaced by Declan Connolly.
Of the 27 projects being monitored, four to five are critical for Mumbai.
The cargo ship, owned by a Japanese company and managed by Fleet Marine Limited in Mumbai, was hijacked by the armed Somali pirates on September 15. The hijackers had demanded a ransom of $6 million for the release of the crew but later brought the amount down to $2.5 million.
National carrier Air India's domestic operation was affected today in the wake of the ongoing strike by the 55,000 officers of 14 state-run oil companies. Jet Airways had also made all arrangements at its end, so that it was not affected, its chief executive officer Wolfgang Prock-Schuaer said in a statement on Tuesday.
The nightmare for the more 230 Dubai-bound passengers began at 3:30 am.
The airports which will see the new system are Mumbai, Delhi, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Cochin and Ahmedabad.
As major airports like Mumbai, Chennai and Hyderabad have a severe cap on the number of fights they can handle, cancellations continued on Tuesday.
A decision whether England or South Africa will host the second edition of the Indian Premier League (IPL) will be taken by Tuesday night, IPL chairman Lalit Modi said in Mumbai on Monday night. Modi said he has already spoken to Cricket South Africa chief Gerald Majola and will hold detailed talks with him in Johannesburg on Tuesday morning.
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'If a drone can't fly airspace without the DGCA knowing about it, how did such a big plane get airborne?' 'The DGCA knows this aircraft had undergone major repairs. Now, the question is who allowed it.' 'The DGCA cannot come out of this.'
Over 600 slots at three major airports - Heathrow, Dubai and New York's JFK International - could be at stake.
Unlike RIL, the Adani group has not yet brought in any big stakeholders to refinance debt or expand.
"Currently, 187 of the 590 passengers who returned from the UK last week are placed under institutional quarantine at various hotels," Dr Gomare said.
Air India on Tuesday announced daily non-stop flights between Mumbai and New York beginning August 1.
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SpiceJet owes around Rs 240 crore (Rs 2.40 billion) to the Airports Authority of India (AAI) for using its airports in the country.
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According to aviation industry sources, around 630 domestic flights of Monday were cancelled due to the Centre's Sunday night announcement that there would be no flights in West Bengal and Andhra Pradesh, and limited operations at major airports such as Mumbai, Chennai and Hyderabad.
Passengers of a San Francisco-bound Air India flight faced a harrowing time due to an inordinate delay and some of them fainted as the aircraft's air-conditioning system was non-functional.
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Panic gripped passengers at the Indira Gandhi international airport on Tuesday after the Jet Airways call centre received threats about bombs in five of its aircraft from New Delhi.
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Nine people died and several others were reported missing as a string of landslips triggered by heavy downpour battered Idukki and adjoining districts of Kerala on Monday.
Such a disruption will take the clock back by many years - in terms of passengers handled - for these airports, thus raising questions among some of the airport operators over a delay in expansion plans.
The daily non-stop service from New York to Mumbai and back will start on August 1.
"With the regulatory approval process now finalised for the new route, we are very pleased to enter this new stage of Jet Airways' North American expansion," Jet Airways founder and chairman Naresh Goyal said.
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Real estate development on Mumbai airport land and the work on Navi Mumbai airport have been inordinately delayed, which have prompted rating downgrades and raised questions on its financial capabilities. It is also trying to stave off Adani group's entry as a shareholder in the Mumbai airport project.
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In case the test is negative, the passenger will still have to undergo seven-day home quarantine.
With entrepreneurs like Maganti drawing up aggressive plans, India has added 10,000 to 15,000 beds every year over the past five years.
He said most of the passengers on the chartered plane that returned from France were from districts of Banaskantha, Patan, Mehsana and Anand.
