In case the test is negative, the passenger will still have to undergo seven-day home quarantine.
The UPA Government is trying to push through the second wave of airport privatisation before the elections and the controversial elements of this process threaten to harm the sector.
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.
A four-member in-house committee has been set up to probe the Air India fire incident that took place at the Mumbai International Airport on Friday. Nearly 200 passengers were on board on Riyadh bound Air India flight (AI-829) when the aircraft's left engine caught fire while taking off. Ruling out the possibility of a technical snag leading to the grounding of the aircraft at the Mumbai airport, aviation experts said the fuel leaked onto the heated engines of the aircraft.
Eman Ahmed was transported by a fully-equipped truck, which was followed by an ambulance and a police escort, to Saifee Hospital where a special room has been built for her.
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Raheja, who was returning from London, was arrested on Wednesday night at the Mumbai International airport for evading payment of customs duty.
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He said most of the passengers on the chartered plane that returned from France were from districts of Banaskantha, Patan, Mehsana and Anand.
The officer told media persons outside the Indira Gandhi International Airport that he has not been summoned by the agency but has some work here.
'Airports must look at their maximum capacity to handle passengers.'
SpiceJet is offering fares on Mumbai-Dubai route as a discount.
The mortal remains of co-pilot Akhilesh Kumar were cremated on Sunday "with attendance from all family members as well as with the officials of Air India and Air India Express present to mark respect to the departed soul at Mathura, his hometown".
Rivals say the concessions would benefit AirAsia alone.
ITDC has embarked upon upgradation of its hotels at an estimated investment of Rs 146 crore (Rs 1.46 billion), while looking for duty-free business beyond India.
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'Within five years, we should be achieving more on the international front than what it took most airlines 15 to 20 years back.'
Suburban services were disrupted with trains on all the three lines -- western, central and harbour -- running late.
With Indian infrastructure companies burdened with debt, global PE funds and developers sense an opportunity to buy the airports cheap
Immigration authorities at the international airport in Mumbai detained a woman and her son suspecting them to be the wife and the son of fugitive gangster Ravi Pujari, the police said on Tuesday.
Three evacuation flights from Romania's capital Bucharest and Hungary's capital Budapest came to India on Tuesday with 616 Indian nationals who were stranded in Ukraine due to the Russian military offensive, officials said.
On Tuesday, the state-run Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority, the planning body, indicated that it expected to award the contract before December, which would pave the way to kick start construction in the same month.
The addition of new flights at airports will now be based on passenger-handling capacity at security checkpoints, according to the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS). The civil aviation security regulator issued directions in this regard on May 22 in a move to reduce congestion and delays inside airport terminals. Following this, airports will have to check passenger-handling capacity at security checkpoints before allotting slots.
The airports chosen for operation, management and development through a public-private partnership model are those in Lucknow, Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Mangaluru, Thiruvananthapuram, and Guwahati.
Rishi Kapoor is back home after undergoing a medical treatment for cancer in the US.
In 2017, absorption in co-working/serviced offices was 2.83 million sq ft, about 186 per cent higher than that of 1.52 million sq ft in 2016.
When I asked Krishna Gopal Sengupta, who had travelled through Bangladesh from Chittagong to Petrapole if the interim government had made any impact at ground level, he said, "it's been only a couple of days. They will need some time." Shyam G Menon reports from Petrapole, India's entry point with Bangladesh.
The civil aviation sector is witnessing a number of initiatives
Now it is confirmed that all 22 people, including four Indian nationals and three crew members, have been killed in the tragedy.
According to an air traffic controller at Jomsom Airport, they was an unconfirmed report about a loud noise reported in the Ghasa region of Jomsom, according to the Post report.
Indian exporters are keeping their fingers crossed on account of rising Covid infections in China and other countries as it could again disrupt supply chains and affect demand for goods. Federation of Indian Export Organisations (FIEO) director general Ajay Sahai said that if the cases continue to increase in the coming days, it may have implications on imports. "We are keeping our fingers crossed," he said.
This is the first time in the history of the airport operator that revenue crossed Rs 10,000 crore.
The West Bengal government paid its last respects to renowned singer KK with a gun salute to his mortal remains.
Flight operations at the Mumbai airport were suspended for nearly half an hour as visibility dropped well below the required 550 meter-mark
Samridhi Bhardwaj analyses the dynamics of duty-free liquor allowance in India.
The relationship of India's star cricketer Virat Kohli and NH 10 actress Anushka Sharma were spotted together in Mumbai and the media has gone abuzz.
To bring about synergy between the two airlines, Air-India and Indian Airlines have signed an agreement under which the domestic carrier will handle all security-related functions for all international flights.
Newly-crowned ICC U-19 World Champions, India were, on Monday, accorded a warm welcome on their arrival at the Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport, in Mumbai.
