IndiGo said operations of the ATR fleet would be handled by an independent team that would be responsible for in-flight services, dispatch and control, and revenue.
Kingfisher Airlines, struggling to stay afloat, may spin off its ATR fleet and loyalty programme (frequent flier programme) into separate units.
The ATR aircraft landed safely at Bhuj in Gujarat.
IndiGo has restored annual increments for more than 4,500 pilots as a financial turnaround helped the airline make a profit in Q3 FY23 after three quarters of loss. An email from the airline's management last week informed pilots of the restoration from April. "The component of annual increment for Indian captains (Rs 10,000 per month) and Indian first officers (Rs 5,000 per month) on the Airbus and ATR fleet which was stopped due to Covid will restart from April 1, 2023," the airline's senior vice president (flight operations) Ashim Mitra said in the staff email.
The search for the missing person started early morning on Wednesday with the help of divers and four drones, rescuers have given up hope of finding the missing person alive, MyRepublica newspaper reported.
Seeking "divine intervention", staff of Pakistan's national carrier PIA sacrificed a black goat at the airport tarmac in Islamabad before an ATR-42 aircraft took off nearly a week after the French-built turboprop planes were grounded following a crash that killed 47 people.
The Service Tax Department here has impounded an aircraft of the grounded Kingfisher Airlines for defaulting tax dues amounting to Rs 63 crore (Rs 630 million), officials said on Tuesday.
An Air India Silchar-Guwahati plane with 52 people on board landed under emergency conditions at the Lokopriyo Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport in Guwahati on Sunday after it lost one of its front wheels during take off.
A Kingfisher Airlines ATR aircraft, with 42 passengers and four crew members on board, overshot the runway after it landed at Mumbai airport on Tuesday. All the passengers are safe and have been evacuated from the aircraft, a Kingfisher Airlines spokesperson said. "Kingfisher Airlines flight 4142 from Bhavnagar (Gujarat) left (overshot) the runway after landing," a Mumbai International Airport Limited spokesperson said. Both the pilots of the aircraft have been taken off duty
Alliance Air, the wholly owned subsidiary of Air India, will operate 6 flights a week except Friday and will use ATR Aircraft on this route which can carry up to 45 passengers, the sources said.
The data of the director general of civil aviation, which publishes monthly data on registration, deregistration and change of ownership of the aircraft, showed that in December 2008, Kingfisher returned six Airbus and one ATR aircraft to the lessors.
Continuing its focus on low cost model of operations, private carrier Jet Airways will shift 45 flights to its no-frill service brand Jet Airways Konnect by October.
Kingfisher Airlines has begin flights between Mumbai and Nasik. The airline's offers an all inclusive fares starting at Rs 885 for travel from Nasik to Mumbai and Rs 883 for travel from Mumbai to Nasik.
The ATR aircraft belonging to First Flight Couriers met with the mishap while landing in Chennai at 0850 hours, airport sources said.
All major airlines in the country are likely to hike the fuel surcharge by Rs 100 with effect from September 5, raising the total surcharge to Rs 750.
Air Deccan, India's first no-frills airlines, expects $120mn revenues in current fiscal.
A Mangaluru-bound Jet Airways flight with 65 passengers and four crew members on board on Wednesday returned to the Bengaluru airport shortly after departure as smoke was detected in the cabin.
The aircraft was earlier owned by EIH (Oberoi group).
At least 20 to 30 departures are being cancelled daily from metros and key airports including Ahmedabad, Bengaluru and Hyderabad.
A differently-abled woman flyer has alleged she had to "crawl" to the passenger coach after deboarding an Air India plane as the carrier failed to arrange a wheel chair for her due to "security" reasons, a charge denied by the airline.
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.
A total of 406 aircraft are in the fleet of eight scheduled airlines in the country, most of which were suffering losses, Lok Sabha was informed.
Paramount Airlines had started its operations in 2005 and was flying to southern and eastern parts of India before it wound up 2010.
The base will be used by carriers such as Alliance Air, a subsidiary of Air India, to operate 70-seater ATR aircraft to places such as Bengaluru.
Airline to deploy around 50 planes in the next seven months
Jet has about 1,200 pilots operating Airbus, Boeing and ATR aircraft.
UDAN demonstrates that good policy-making can fulfill important public requirements without requiring budgetary support, says MoS for civil aviation Jayant Sinha.
The national carrier's market share has declined from a near-monopoly to 16.6 per cent as of September 2014.
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