The low cost public sector carrier, Air India Express, will soon start operations from some southern cities to the Gulf and West Asia at 30 per cent lower fares than the regular ones, Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel said on Thursday.
Testifying before an inquiry into the bombing, baggage screener Daniel Lalonde said he overheard officials, whom he did not identify, saying that keeping the plane on the tarmac was too costly.
A June 27 briefing document about the call says: 'Overall impression was that Gandhi was highly excited, perturbed and concerned, but highly appreciative of the call.'
The issues of brand name, mascot and logo of the merged entity would also be finalised "in two weeks".
The ministries of finance and civil aviation have considered a proposal to involve financial institutions to issue additional equity to reduce government stake in the airlines.
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V Thulasidas, an officer of the Indian Administrative Service of Tripura cadre, on Monday, took over as the chairman and managing director of Air-India.
The claim that the woman was scared of the accused has prompted the prosecution to apply to the court to get her declared 'hostile'.
The announcement of 'open sky' policy for designated airlines of ten ASEAN nations to fly unhindered into the Indian cities is likely to hit the earnings of Air-India and Indian Airlines, official sources said in New Delhi on Friday.
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Expressing deep concern over the declining profitability and market share of Indian Airlines and Air-India, the government on Wednesday said there was an urgent need to augment the aircraft fleet to turnaround the two companies.
The Boeing 747-400 flights from New York via London-Delhi (AI 112) and New Jersey via Paris (AI 144) have been delayed and will now land on Saturday afternoon.
After losing his driver to Covid, Ahmedabad engineer Shivam Dhruva felt the need to build an app that will provide latest medical updates at the click of a button, free of cost.
The civil aviation policy and the fleet acquisition plan for both Air-India and Indian Airlines is expected to be completed within the next couple of months.
With 150 out of 200 unionised pilots unconditionally signing the undertaking, Air-India is prepared to operate eight additional flights to the Gulf and a fifth service to New Jersey from July 5.
Over 1,000 employees of Air-India are expected to avail of the voluntary retirement scheme, for which the airline would have to bear financial burden of about Rs 57 crore.
The board of international flag carrier Air-India will take a final decision on April 9 on a multi-billion-dollar plan to buy up to 17 planes from either Boeing or Airbus, a spokesman said.
India will approve plans by two state-owned airlines to buy new planes only after it decides whether or not to sell part of its stakes in the carriers, the civil aviation minister said on Tuesday.
Civil Aviation Minister Shahnawaz Hussain has said he is 'totally in favour' of divesting Air-India and Indian Airlines, but asserted there are no buyers for them in the present depressed global aviation market.
Civil Aviation Minister Syed Shahnawaz Hussain has said his focus is on buying new aircraft rather than divesting stake in A-I and IA.
AIATSL is offering ground-handling services as per International Air Transport Association standards to all Air India flights and customer airlines operating through Indian international Airports.
There are over 50 such ashrams in India where Christianity is presented as an Eastern faith. You will see Christ looking like an Indian sadhu, and Mother Mary picturised wearing a sari. Mother Karen has sojourned at several of those ashrams, particularly at Shantivanam Ashram, a Camaldolese Benedictine community made famous by its former prior, Bede 'Dayananda' Griffiths.
The government is looking to sell 10-20 per cent of its holding in national carriers Air-India and Indian Airlines in their initial public offer, Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel said on Monday.
Former England captain Paul Collingwood says the squad now has a lot of match-winners, from one to 11, who can win games from their own bat.
'You are not going to find success all the time and you will feel insecure when your film fails at the box office, but that's a part of the game.' 'You just deal with it and move on.; 'Maybe the problem was something else and not so much about his career.'
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State-run Air-India will lease 14 Boeing aircraft to launch a no-frills airline that will slash passengers' fares by 25 per cent, an airline official said.\n\n\n\n
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