All passengers were evacuated safely via slides.
The total cost will include expenses related to crew, fuel, navigation, landing and parking charges.
This is the largest single dose of equity infusion into the joint venture since its launch in January 2015.
Airbus is now confident of crossing 1,000 net orders (excluding cancellations or conversions from previous orders) in 2014.
The issue had come up during a presentation by the Civil Aviation Ministry.
'We have informed the government multiple times that the situation in the US and India are different.' 'Here, there will be a 500 MHz gap in the frequencies which will safely allow aviation without interference.'
The Indira Gandhi International airport and Birmingham Airport signed an MoU to develop further links and formalise a working relationship.
Air India expects to wipe out some red marks from its balance sheet.
Media reports said that Air India's Flight AI-312 landed at Sydney Airport at 8.29 am (local time) few minutes behind its schedule and then to Melbourne early afternoon at 11.59 am.
Whether this happens because DGCA actually cares about the future of the national carrier or for other motives is not clear.
Jet Airways remains the number one airline serving foreign routes.
The national carrier's capacity is expected to grow by 9.2 per cent with the addition of six more Boeing 787 Dreamliners to the fleet, they said. As of February this year, the airline has 13 Dreamliners in its fleet out of a total order of 27.
The Dreamliner will allow Air India to finally match the right kind of routes with the right kind of planes, while launching new ones. Some say it won't solve the airline's problems.
'Indian diplomacy in West Asia under the present government has been a success story -- and with Saudi Arabia in particular,' says Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
Aviation regulator DGCA has found "human error" among others as the cause of an incident at the Bengaluru airport two years ago involving an Air India Dreamliner plane, in which the aircraft's fuselage panel had fallen off at runway during landing.
The slot constraint in Indian airports is also going to play a role in pushing airlines to have wide bodies.
Former India footballer Gouramangi Singh's wife, Pushpanjali has been airlifting Indians stranded in different parts of the world and bringing them back home amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
The announcement by Air India CMD Rohit Nandan came on a day when two of the airline's six Dreamliners resumed commercial operations and operated regular flights from Delhi to Bengaluru and Kolkata.
The airline is trying to save on wage costs by cutting the normal notice period of six months by about half for pilots who have already resigned.
"The return fare on economy class to most European capitals from Mumbai are close to 50,000 plus. If an LCC can offer direct connectivity for a basic fare of 25,000 with additional top ups for meals, baggage and blankets, which further takes the fare to, say, 35,000, it is still a value deal."
Reduction in fuel price was supposed to bring back good luck for Indian airlines. But with the global spread of coronavirus, airlines are being forced to rejig their network, cut flights, and delay launches.
GST impact: Higher lease payouts may hit airlines, cab aggregators.
The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) is probing the incident of an Air India flight, AI 123, from New Delhi to Rome losing radio contact over Italy on October 16.
The airline's accounts are yet to be audited.
That it has been threatening to review this rule for a while is old hat anyway.
The Bengaluru skies dazzled with somersaults and stunts by metal birds.
For Air India and Jet Airways, airspace closure over Pakistan would mean flights to US and Europe will have to take a longer route.
In 2015, India's domestic aviation market clocked 81 million flights.
Market estimates suggest the airline has already totted up Rs 1,800 crore of losses in FY20, and FY21 is expected to see losses in the region of Rs 2,500 crore to Rs 3,000 crore Many in the sector say that Vistara lacks the light-footedness of the airlines with which it competes, reports Anjuli Bhargava.
But the Abu Dhabi-based airline would first bolster its own network with traffic from India before Jet's turnaround.
The government also said it will hold consultations with the airlines to explore the possibility of curbing the menace of charging exorbitant airfares during emergency situations.
Amber Dubey explains why India needs to stop blocking competition if it ever wants to become the top aviation market.
Both Vistara and AirAsia India, along with their partners, are quietly putting together an aggressive plan to become a formidable force in the skies. At the core of this new push is their plan to go international this financial year.
The Indian Air Force has 31 fighter squadrons as against authorised strength of 42 squadrons.
The aircraft flew out from the airbase in the French port city of Bordeaux and will cover a distance of nearly 7,000 km with air-to-air refuelling and a single stop in the United Arab Emirates before arriving at Ambala airbase on Wednesday, officials said.
Altigreen's hybrid engine will help make cars more fuel efficient and the air we breathe cleaner.
Chartered flights may increase 34% from last year as more Russian tourists come calling.
Here is an explainer and a timeline relating to India's purchase of 36 combat jets.
Domestic airports across the country are bursting at the seams. And new ones are stuck.
