At present, Air India offers eight first class, 35 business class and 195 economy class seats in its Boeing 777 200-LRs.
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.
Aviation watchdog Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has asked Vistara to submit a daily report on flight cancellations and delays as the Tata group airline cancelled more than 50 flights for the second straight day on Tuesday amid non-availability of pilots.
The central government on Monday permitted airlines operating in India to provide in-flight wi-fi services to passengers, according to an official notification.
The airline would offer access to in-flight connectivity only on Dreamliners and Airbus 321 aircraft on international routes.
The total cost will include expenses related to crew, fuel, navigation, landing and parking charges.
Several such incidents of windshield cracks suffered by the Dreamliners of Air India have been reported in the past.
Though the Dharmadhikari report expects Air India would be cash surplus by eight years, the efforts are on so that it happens earlier.
To sell five Boeing 777s, replacing these with cheaper aircraft
Fifteen of these pilots are expatriates who were hired for flying the Boeing 787 Dreamliners till Air India's crew got trained.
The airline's board met in the national capital on Tuesday, and decided to go in for sale and leaseback of Boeing 787 Dreamliners, due for delivery next month.
'I don't think there will be a direct reaction to the fuel price hike on air ticket prices.'
Price appreciation since the aircraft order in 2005 could yield Rs 7,200-crore gain.
5 AI's Dreamliner pilots left the airline to join other carriers without serving the mandatory six-month notice period
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With the launch of these services, Air India would become the first airline to operate the new Boeing-787 Dreamliner to the Australian continent, a spokesperson said.
Etihad is the fourth airline to operate the super jumbo aircraft to India.
This is the third instance in the last three days when the aviation regulator grounded a plane after an incident.
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The flight will operate every Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday. While the inaugural flight AI 139 left at 6 pm (Indian time) on Thursday, the scheduled departure will be 4.50 pm (Indian time) from March 25 when the summer schedule comes into operation.
Chartered flights may increase 34% from last year as more Russian tourists come calling.
The CCEA approved the TAP and the airline's financial restructuring plan, which includes additional equity infusion by the government.
Says pilots ready to resume work but civil aviation minister unwilling to reinstate sacked employees
Four Air India international flights were cancelled from Delhi and Mumbai today after about 100 pilots refused to join work.
The development comes four days ahead of the launch of a training programme for pilots to fly the Boeing 787 Dreamliners.
No move yet on delivery of 787s slated for mid-January.
Currently, Vistara has more than 22 planes and operates around 850 flights every week.
EasyJet agreed to buy 35 current-generation A320 aircraft and 100 new-generation A320neo jets, with options for a further 100, the airline announced on the second day of the Paris Airshow.
The runways are expected to be made operational for the larger aircraft before the Commonwealth Games in October.
The Tata group may have to deploy upwards of $1 billion to improve the airline's passenger reservation system, upgrade and refurbish Air India's fleet, primarily the wide-body aircraft which are the mainstay for the airline's international operations, people in the know said. While the group has not yet decided on how it intends to integrate Air India with its existing airlines AirAsia India and Vistara, sources said the first task will be to refinance Air India's existing loans, upgrade its aircraft gradually, and rewrite multiple business contracts with vendors and suppliers. "They will have to do 100 things to stabilise the airline and will have to put in a lot of money," DIPAM secretary Tuhin Kanta Pandey said, confirming that many aircraft are grounded.
The first government sukuk was listed on the London Stock Exchange as Britain reaffirmed its reputation as the main western centre for Islamic finance. Bahrain chose London to list its second Islamic bond as it sought to encourage more European and conventional investors to buy the paper. The Gulf kingdom listed its first sukuk in Luxembourg in 2004. Significantly, more than 50 per cent of the paper was bought by European investors.
India will be one of the key centres for design and development of the A350 aircraft, European aircraft manufacturer Airbus' answer to the Boeing 787 Dreamliner.
Airbus recaptured the aircraft industry's top spot in the first quarter of 2013 as US rival Boeing fell behind on orders and grappled with the grounding of its newest jet, the 787 Dreamliner.
"Co-developed and verified" by Indian IT major, HCL Technologies, this chip would be integrated into the system data acquisition computer of the aircraft, a top company official has said.
This is the largest single dose of equity infusion into the joint venture since its launch in January 2015.
The CMD's focus on raising employee morale and cutting costs is paying off. The airline's operating losses have shrunk and earnings are looking up
Thirty years ago, he'd introduced himself as Capt Rohan Bhasin to his playschool teacher.
Etihad said it declined to lodge an EoI to reinvest in Jet Airways because of unresolved issues concerning the airline's liabilities.
An additional lease rental of Rs 200 crore on nine Boeing 787 Dreamliners was the reason for ending in the red this quarter, Arindam Majumder reports from New Delhi.
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.
