Air India pilots and crew often play musical chairs, leading to a substantial revenue loss for the airline in an inefficiently managed set-up
It and Vistara both book slots here; former also likely to launch Mumbai flights from early 2015.
This proposal is a part of the comprehensive aviation policy that the ministry has submitted to the Cabinet and which has now been referred to a Group of Ministers.
Ever since its inception in 1996, Bengaluru has been playing host to Asia's biggest air show.
The airline has closed reservation for flights to Silchar, Imphal, Aizawl, Jorhat in northeastern states from mid-February. Reservation has also been closed for flights to Madurai, Visakhapatnam, Raipur, Muscat and Sharjah.
A Russian fund submitted its interest to the resolution professional on February 14 and also hired a consultancy firm to help them with the bidding process.
Aviation Turbine Fuel or jet fuel in Delhi, the city that houses the nation's second busiest airport, costs $1,291 per kilolitre while the same in Singapore is sold at $1,067 per kl. It costs $1,100 per kl in Hong Kong and $1,113 in Colombo.
GE has drawn up plans to make India a global sourcing hub for all its core businesses. It has decided to develop and manufacture products locally for global markets and partner in large-scale projects in areas such as energy, water, aviation and rail transport.
The Indian Navy has a big role to play in support of our strategic objectives in the Indian Ocean. The increasing Chinese presence in the Indian Ocean is a matter of concern and need to be factored. Hence, the requirement of an Aircraft Carrier is a foregone conclusion, asserts Commodore Venugopal Menon (retd).
There is little that Andreas Schmid, the Swiss-born chairman of Flughafen Zurich AG (Zurich Airport International AG), and Yogi Adityanath, chief minister of Uttar Pradesh (UP), could have in common. But Schmid, whose company is building the Noida airport in partnership with the UP government, finds himself on the same footing as the firebrand Hindutva leader who rules the state. Both hope the Rs 30,000-crore ($4 billion) project, hanging fire for 20 years, shows some progress when UP goes to the polls in 2022.
Naresh Goyal, after being ousted with his wife from the board last week, and with his shareholding halved to 25 per cent, can still make a comeback by partnering a new investor and win back majority control.
The United States and the United Kingdom, citing terrorism concerns, on Tuesday barred passengers on some international flights from mostly Muslim-majority countries, from carrying large electronic devices like cameras and laptops as cabin baggage.
The company will meet DGCA next week and is putting in place a strategy to contain the damage
The airline now has a total of 1,120 pilots of whom 88 are foreign pilots.
Full-service airline Tata-SIA, submitted its application for the grant of Air Operator's Permit (AOP or flying license) in April.
Over 80 domestic flights of all major airlines to and from Mumbai were cancelled on Monday.
The low fares will come with a discernible sea-change in service quality and minus the luxury which comes as an essential part of any long-haul travel
The Prime Minister will be releasing separate brochures for these sectors along with a general brochure.
Air India would add about 400 daily flights and over 40 new destinations in India to the 27-member Alliance network of over 18,500 daily flights to 1,316 airports in 195 countries.
The Forum is organised by Singapore Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry, with the partnership of state-trade agency IE Singapore, the Confederation of Indian Industry and the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
Delhi airport, the country's busiest, runs out of slots due to runway capacity constraints.
The Singapore government on Wednesday conveyed to the Indian High Commissioner its strong objection to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's comments about a 'Singapore variant' of COVID-19, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said.
'I will not bog down with the setbacks. I am going to republish the book. All the copyrights rest with me,' former executive director of Air India Jitendra Bhargave tells Tinesh Bhasin about Praful Patel's pressure to withdraw his book.
Major global airlines, including Gulf carriers, are keen to invest in this space.
Travels to Gulf accounted for 40% of India's international air traffic in 2016.
So far, government officials or employees were allowed to fly only Air India or its subsidiaries on official duty.
But the Abu Dhabi-based airline would first bolster its own network with traffic from India before Jet's turnaround.
Jet Airways on Thursday said it would introduce more flights on both its domestic and international networks.
Besides the major metros, the proposed airline would also connect Srinagar, Patna, Chandigarh and Jammu.
Vistara is likely to offer 148 seats in a three-class configuration in its Airbus A320s, industry sources said.
Overseas airlines can operate unlimited number of flights into and out of India.
The Union health ministry on Tuesday said that aid received from other countries has been distributed in different states to help deal with the rising number of COVID-19 cases.
India's main hubs are bursting at the seams.
The carrier planned to bring in a plane a month from March to build a fleet of at least 10 jets by the end of the year.
The airline will be inducting large number of A321s this year which will be largely used on international routes and high density domestic routes.
Vistara was launched on January 9.
Experts say local demand, government policies in retail and refining sector are attracting foreign players.
India remains at the top with 8,401,253 passengers, a year on year growth of 14.3 per cent compared to 7,347,270 in 2012.
